Adolescent Sexuality: An Article Summary

Brendgen (et al. 2002) offers a report of a quantitative study on 312 early adolescents in order to determine the impact of same-sex peer relations and romantic relationships during early adolescence on emotional, behavioral, and academic adjustment. Using SullivanÆs theory of social development, the authors attempt to corroborate SullivanÆs claim that ôthe expansion of the affiliative peer network from same-sex to other-sex peers and the formation of romantic relationships during adolescence are normative developmental tasks related to healthy developmental adjustmentö (Brendgen, et al. 2002, 77).

The purpose of the authorsÆ study is to test this theory by examining whether having a romantic relationship with an other-sex peer in early adolescent would be ôdifferentially relatedö to behavioral, emotional, and academic adjustment based on relations with same-sex peer group (Brendgen, et al. 2002, 80). The authors propose two directional hypotheses in this study:

1) For early adolescents who are accepted by their same-sex peer group or who have at least one same-sex friend, a positive relation was expected between having a boyfriend/girlfriend and adjustmen

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