Parental relationships impact people from the very beginning of their childhood, through adolescence and emerging adulthood, into adulthood. It can affect people in various ways from personality to romantic relationships. Adolescents believe romantic relationships are an important part of developing an identity so how does the adolescent-parent relationships factor into it exactly? Parents’ attachment styles and parenting styles have a significant impact on adolescences’ self-esteem and their romantic relationships.
There are three main attachment styles that have been proposed to link with parenting styles. Secure, anxious-ambivalent (preoccupied), and anxious-avoidant (dismissing) are the three main attachment styles. Positive thinking of …show more content…
Romantic relationships can be driven by various motivations such as biological (sexual-reproductive), affiliative, attachment, and caregiving. Biological and affiliative needs could drive an adolescent into getting involved in a romantic relationship early in adolescence. Biological needs are shown in the evidence of early-maturating girls date earlier than late-maturing girls. Many adolescents remark that support and companionship are advantages of being in a romantic relationship, demonstrating the affiliative needs. The most common motivations for adolescents are socialization, recreations, and reducing uncertainty, which corresponds with the most common motivations given for dating by the general public: identity, intimacy, and social status. Adolescents may engage in a romantic relationship because of extrinsic motivations, such as social status. The use of extrinsic motivations in associated with low global and social self-esteem. Adolescents also may consider romantic relationships as crucial to their identity development. They understand the importance of behavior in a social context. Therefore in order to develop socially, they believe they must experience a romantic relationship (Kindelberger & Tsao, 2014). In City of Bones, Clary’s motivation for a relationship with Jace is intimacy …show more content…
The interactions, quality of relations in the family, and parenting styles are related to interaction and quality of later romantic relationships. The quality of parent-adolescent relationship directly predicted the quality in a romantic relationship 15 years later. Self-esteem also provides a link between family-of-origin experiences and romantic relationship quality. The quality of parent-adolescent relationships was associated with an increased self-esteem in the development to adulthood, and the increased self-esteem predicted higher intimate relationships quality as a young adult. Whereas, greater depressive symptoms predicted reduced romantic relationship quality (Johnson & Galambos, 2014). In City of Bone, Clary clearly does not have a high self-esteem, which is why she does not have a romantic
There are three main attachment styles that have been proposed to link with parenting styles. Secure, anxious-ambivalent (preoccupied), and anxious-avoidant (dismissing) are the three main attachment styles. Positive thinking of …show more content…
Romantic relationships can be driven by various motivations such as biological (sexual-reproductive), affiliative, attachment, and caregiving. Biological and affiliative needs could drive an adolescent into getting involved in a romantic relationship early in adolescence. Biological needs are shown in the evidence of early-maturating girls date earlier than late-maturing girls. Many adolescents remark that support and companionship are advantages of being in a romantic relationship, demonstrating the affiliative needs. The most common motivations for adolescents are socialization, recreations, and reducing uncertainty, which corresponds with the most common motivations given for dating by the general public: identity, intimacy, and social status. Adolescents may engage in a romantic relationship because of extrinsic motivations, such as social status. The use of extrinsic motivations in associated with low global and social self-esteem. Adolescents also may consider romantic relationships as crucial to their identity development. They understand the importance of behavior in a social context. Therefore in order to develop socially, they believe they must experience a romantic relationship (Kindelberger & Tsao, 2014). In City of Bones, Clary’s motivation for a relationship with Jace is intimacy …show more content…
The interactions, quality of relations in the family, and parenting styles are related to interaction and quality of later romantic relationships. The quality of parent-adolescent relationship directly predicted the quality in a romantic relationship 15 years later. Self-esteem also provides a link between family-of-origin experiences and romantic relationship quality. The quality of parent-adolescent relationships was associated with an increased self-esteem in the development to adulthood, and the increased self-esteem predicted higher intimate relationships quality as a young adult. Whereas, greater depressive symptoms predicted reduced romantic relationship quality (Johnson & Galambos, 2014). In City of Bone, Clary clearly does not have a high self-esteem, which is why she does not have a romantic