Psychological Science ›› 2014, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 593-600.

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Development of Adolescents’ Romantic Relationship Incidence and the Relationship among the Influential Factors

  

  • Received:2013-07-04 Revised:2014-02-28 Online:2014-05-20 Published:2014-05-20
  • Contact: Wen Liu

青少年浪漫关系倾向发展特点及其与相关影响因素的关系

刘文1,毛晶晶1,俞睿玮1,李凤杰2,3   

  1. 1. 辽宁师范大学
    2.
    3. 大连教育学院
  • 通讯作者: 刘文

Abstract: Romantic relationship is formed through the communication between couples, including intimacy, passion and commitment. Romantic relationship is an important milestone in the development of social relations for teenagers. To them, there’s a qualitative difference between romantic relationship in its early stage and that in its later stage. Romantic relationship in its early stage is the love of companionship and closely related to friendship, while its later stage involves the strong feelings of intimacy, commitment and sexual love. Even though psychological studies on adolescent romantic relationship has a history of only a few decades, psychologists think that it is a major characteristic of adolescent social relations and has very important effects on their development of independence, identification, capacity of intimate actions and conflict resolutions. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of adolescents’ romantic relationship. However, currently in China, the majority of the studies on this issue are introductions or syntheses of educators’ experiences, whereas empirical studies are few. The adolescents’ romantic relationship is a key feature of their social worlds and influenced by their family and peer factors, and it is closely related to their academic achievement. To invest whether the implicit attitude about the romantic relationship and the attachment of parent and peer are important influence factors to the happen of romantic relationship in adolescent. And we explore the relationships between the romantic relationship and the academic achievement. It’ll provide the theoretical basis and practical guidance for the early interference and education of adolescents’ romantic relationship. Therefore, this study attempts to have a comprehensive discussion on the influences of such factors as individual implicit attitude, parental and companion attachment on the inclination of adolescent romantic relations, thus provide psychological directions and practical guidance for early intervention of adolescent romantic relations. By means of combination of experiments and questionnaire, we study 204 adolescents aged 12~18 year old. Firstly, we design the Implicit Relational Association Procedure (IRAP) to invest the development status of the happen of romantic relationship in adolescent. Secondly, through the Single Category Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT) , we invest the age characteristics and gender differences of implicit attitude about the romantic relationship. Meanwhile, adolescents accomplish the questionnaire of “ The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) ”, in order to research the prediction of implicit attitude about the romantic relationship and attachment of parent and peer on the happen of romantic relationship in adolescent. Thirdly, the questionnaire of “ The Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) ” are assigned to the students. And we also collect their academic achievement in order to explore the relationship between adolescents’ romantic relationship and academic achievement. The results show that(1) There is distinct grade difference in the adolescents’ development of the incidence of romantic relationship and the Grade One in high school is the critical period. With the development of grade, the overall trend is increasing at first and then a slightly downward. There is no significant gender differences in boys and girls.The boys’ overall score is slightly higher than girls’.(2) Adolescents’ implicit attitude about the romantic relationship has a significant difference in grade. With the development of age, the supportive of romantic relationship is increasing, but a slightly downward in Grade Three in high school. And there is no statistical significance in boys and girls.(3) The occurrence of romantic relationship has significant negative correlation with the score of the attachment of mother. And the happen of romantic relationship also has significant negative correlation with the score of the attachment of peer. The attachment of mother can predict their happen of romantic relationship in certain degree.

Key words: adolescent, romatic relationship, implicit test, attachment

摘要: 采用内隐关系评估测验(IRAP)、单类内隐联想测试(SC-IAT)和问卷法,对204名12~18岁青少年进行研究,考察青少年浪漫关系发展特点,内隐态度、父母依恋及同伴依恋对青少年浪漫关系倾向的预测作用。结果表明:(1)青少年浪漫关系发生倾向存在显著的年级差异,高一年级是青少年浪漫关系发展的敏感时期。(2)青少年浪漫关系内隐态度存在显著的年级差异,随年龄增长,青少年对浪漫关系的支持性增加,但在高三年级略有下降。(3)青少年浪漫关系发生倾向与母亲依恋及同伴依恋呈极其显著负相关。青少年母亲依恋程度在一定程度上可以预测其浪漫关系的发生。

关键词: 青少年, 浪漫关系, 内隐测验, 依恋