types of relationships can influence adolescents:

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  • Parental Relationships - when teens go through the puberty stage, incidents of parent-child conflict m increase. Arguments may be in the issues of control, such as curfew, ways of dressing, and the right to privacy. Parent-adolescent disagreement also increases as peers show a greater impact on the child, this is especially true when parents do not approve of new friends' values or behavior. However, these may only bring little impact on their relationship, regarding more important life issues, many adolescents will still share the same attitudes and values as their parents.
  • Peer Relationships - as adolescents work to form their identities, they pull away from their parents, and the peer group becomes very important (Shanahan, McHale Osgood, & Crouter, 2007). The
    impact of peers' influence has a vital role in adolescents' personal development. As they mingle and bond with different people they start to form friendships.
  • Community, Society, and Culture - there are certain characteristics of adolescent development that are more rooted in culture than in human biology or cognitive structures. Culture is learned and
    socially shared, and it affects all aspects of an individual's life. A lot of distinguishing characteristics of an individual are products of culture.
  • Peer Group Leaders and Followers
    According to Benjamin B. Wolman in his book entitled Adolescence: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives published in 1998, adolescence often claims that their groups do not have leaders, but
    quite often their groups are referred to by the name of one of its members, who usually is the leader. Even when adolescents deny that they have a leader, there is just one individual who occupies the
    leadership position and plays an important role in relating the group to other groups. All adolescent groups and cliques develop a hierarchic status system.