soc sci lesson 9

• Personal relationships


  Involve the act of relating and allowing your person to connect with others
• Types of teenage relationships

  • Parents and family
  • Friendship and peers
  • Romantic relationship
  • Casual relationship
• Parents and family


  • Considered as integral part of our lives as individual
  • Level of closeness to, support of, and communication with family can have big impact on your future romantic relationships
• Friendship and peers


  • Good friends can be your stronghold and support, providing you with sense of belonging, value, and security
  • Source of information related to physical and emotional changes
  • Healthy friendships
• Romance


  • A pleasurable feeling based on attraction to another person
  • Part of the major developmental milestone in the aspects of the self, and is partly characterized by his/her growing interest and desire for independence, space, and privacy
• Average age when a person begins having relationships

  • 9 - 11 years old
  • 10 - 14 years old
  • 15 - 19 years old
• Romantic relationship


  • Starts to show independence
  • Spends more time in mixed gender groups
  • Romantic relationships can become central to social life
• Casual relationship


  • A type of relationship without real and defined sense of seriousness and commitment
  • Non-committal; no depth and intensity
  • May sometimes pertain to casual sexual activities that some adolescents engage in
• Dynamics of attraction, love, and commitment

  • Attraction
  • Love
  • Commitment
• Attraction


  • Refers to the act, process, or power of attracting and evoking interest, pleasure or liking for someone
  • During adolescence, attraction is strong among friends when they have common interests and desires
• Expressions of attraction


  • Crush
  • Courtship
  • Going steady
• Crush


  • Can be romantic or intense infatuation
  • Short-lived
• Courtship


  Includes stages in romantic relationship whereby one gets to know more about the other person in an exclusive manner through dating
• Love


  • Attachment - Desire for the presence of the other person
  • Caring - Concern for the other person's well-being
  • Intimacy - Desire for privacy, closeness, and communication
• Ellen McGrath: 'Know that love is a learned skill, not something that comes from hormones or emotion particularly'
• Erich Fromm: 'An Act of will'
• Commitment


  Commitment is a cognitive process. It happens in the mind and is a conscious effort or decision to love another person
• Unacceptable behavior among adolescents is determined based on varied perspectives such as religion and social norms
• How to become responsible in managing relationships

  • Being responsible means being able to properly respond to varied challenging situations related to relationships
  • It requires your full commitment and courage in confronting yourself and others