Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Personal Relationships
- 1 The Tides of Change: Recent Trends and Developments in Close Relationships Research
- 2 Theories and Research in Personal Relationships
- 3 Lift Every Voice: An Inclusive Perspective on Considering Methodological Trade-Offs in Relationships Research
- 4 Dyadic Data Analysis: Current Issues and Directions
- 5 Relationship Beginnings: Selection and Initiation
- 6 Relationship Development and Growth
- 7 The Longitudinal Course of Couple Relationships
- 8 Recent Advances in Research on Children’s Friendships
- 9 Personal Relationships with Parents and Peers in Adolescence
- 10 Close Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood
- 11 Family Systems and Family Relationships: Family Subsystems Across Diverse Families
- 12 Personality Influences in Relationships: How Self-Esteem, Neuroticism, and Agreeableness Affect Hurt Feelings
- 13 Internal Working Models of Attachment: A Lifespan Perspective
- 14 Ethnicity, Culture, and Close Relationships:
- 15 Relationship Neuroscience
- 16 Interpersonal Social Cognition and Relationship Evaluation
- 17 Communication: Basic Properties and Their Relevance to Relationship Research
- 18 How Communal Relational Contexts Shape (and Are Shaped by) Emotional Lives
- 19 Self-Disclosure in Relationships: Disclosure Dynamics as a Seismograph of Relationship Quality
- 20 Social Support in Close Relationships
- 21 Understanding Couple Conflict
- 22 Sexuality in Relationships: Highlights and Oversights from Recent Research
- 23 Transgressions, (Un)forgiveness, and Revenge
- 24 Stress and Dyadic Coping
- 25 Aggression and Violence in Romantic Relationships
- 26 Understanding the Problem of Loneliness and the Challenge of Addressing It
- 27 Relationship Dissolution
- 28 Love in Relationships
- 29 Relationship Satisfaction
- 30 Commitment Processes in Close Relationships
- 31 Relationships and Physical Health
- 32 Social Networks and Personal Relationships
- 33 Friendships and Acquaintanceships
- 34 Technology and Personal Relationships
- 35 Examining Intimate Relationships across Black Populations with a Focus on Context
- 36 Promoting Healthy Couple Relationships
- 37 Maintaining Relationships
- 38 Treating Relationship Distress
- 39 Teaching Relationship Science
- 40 Relationship Science: A Hard Look at the State of the Science and an Agenda for Moving Forward
- Index
- References
9 - Personal Relationships with Parents and Peers in Adolescence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2026
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Personal Relationships
- 1 The Tides of Change: Recent Trends and Developments in Close Relationships Research
- 2 Theories and Research in Personal Relationships
- 3 Lift Every Voice: An Inclusive Perspective on Considering Methodological Trade-Offs in Relationships Research
- 4 Dyadic Data Analysis: Current Issues and Directions
- 5 Relationship Beginnings: Selection and Initiation
- 6 Relationship Development and Growth
- 7 The Longitudinal Course of Couple Relationships
- 8 Recent Advances in Research on Children’s Friendships
- 9 Personal Relationships with Parents and Peers in Adolescence
- 10 Close Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood
- 11 Family Systems and Family Relationships: Family Subsystems Across Diverse Families
- 12 Personality Influences in Relationships: How Self-Esteem, Neuroticism, and Agreeableness Affect Hurt Feelings
- 13 Internal Working Models of Attachment: A Lifespan Perspective
- 14 Ethnicity, Culture, and Close Relationships:
- 15 Relationship Neuroscience
- 16 Interpersonal Social Cognition and Relationship Evaluation
- 17 Communication: Basic Properties and Their Relevance to Relationship Research
- 18 How Communal Relational Contexts Shape (and Are Shaped by) Emotional Lives
- 19 Self-Disclosure in Relationships: Disclosure Dynamics as a Seismograph of Relationship Quality
- 20 Social Support in Close Relationships
- 21 Understanding Couple Conflict
- 22 Sexuality in Relationships: Highlights and Oversights from Recent Research
- 23 Transgressions, (Un)forgiveness, and Revenge
- 24 Stress and Dyadic Coping
- 25 Aggression and Violence in Romantic Relationships
- 26 Understanding the Problem of Loneliness and the Challenge of Addressing It
- 27 Relationship Dissolution
- 28 Love in Relationships
- 29 Relationship Satisfaction
- 30 Commitment Processes in Close Relationships
- 31 Relationships and Physical Health
- 32 Social Networks and Personal Relationships
- 33 Friendships and Acquaintanceships
- 34 Technology and Personal Relationships
- 35 Examining Intimate Relationships across Black Populations with a Focus on Context
- 36 Promoting Healthy Couple Relationships
- 37 Maintaining Relationships
- 38 Treating Relationship Distress
- 39 Teaching Relationship Science
- 40 Relationship Science: A Hard Look at the State of the Science and an Agenda for Moving Forward
- Index
- References
Summary
The current chapter focuses on the development of adolescents’ relationships with parents, friends, and romantic partners, and their role in youth’s psychosocial adjustment. The chapter describes how relationships with parents in adolescence go through a period of transition toward a more egalitarian and reciprocal relationship, with temporary decreases in connectedness and increases in conflict in the process. Adolescents’ relationships with friends become more supportive and acquire a more optimal balance between intimacy and respect for each other’s individual needs over the course of adolescence. Positive experiences of adolescents in relationships with parents and friends predict healthy romantic functioning and satisfaction later in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Romantic involvement and relationship quality typically progresses towards increased attachment and intimacy functions in late adolescence and young adulthood. Satisfactory romantic relationships and a healthy sexual development tend to go hand-in-hand. High-quality relationships with parents, friends, and romantic partners are typically associated with positive socioemotional outcomes.
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