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Students from single-sex schools are more gender-salient and more anxious in mixed-gender situations: Results from high school and college samples. Gender segregation exists in all walks of life. One of the most common forms of institutionalized gender segregation is perhaps single-sex schooling.
It is critical to explore how single-sex schooling is associated with these psychosocial outcomes in adolescents and young adults because they are in the developmental stage when the desire and need to establish mixed-gender relationships increase. We report two systematic studies on gender salience, mixed-gender friendships, and mixed-gender anxiety on high school students and college students from single-sex or coeducational schools. Even with demographic background controlled, results suggested higher gender salience in single-sex school students in the high school sample, and greater mixed-gender anxiety and fewer mixed-gender friendships in these students in both samples.
These differences were not moderated by student gender and were similar in first-year versus senior college students. Moreover, mixed-gender friendships, though not gender salience, appeared to engage in a possibly bi-directional mediation relationship with mixed-gender anxiety that is consistent with a vicious cycle of escalating anxiety and lack of mixed-gender interaction among single-sex school students.
These findings help fill the knowledge gap about the correlates of gender-segregated schooling and shed light on the precursors of later social and achievement differences between single-sex and coeducational school students. Social anxiety, observed performance, and perceived social competencies in late-adolescent friendships. The functioning of college students with social anxiety in friendships is surprisingly unexplored, given the prevalence and severity of psychopathology as well as the importance of close social relationships at this developmental stage.
The current study sought to examine the perceived social competencies of late adolescents and their observable behavior in conversation with friends. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed. With regard to dating anxiety, our study findings are in line with prior research report- ing that young adults who experienced anxiety and distress with regard to dating, that is, high dating anxious, were less likely to use dating apps.
Thus, the fear they experience regarding offline dating Glickman and LaGreca, seems to transfer to online dat- ing, inhibiting them further from engaging in dating. Valkenburg and Peter found a similar finding regarding dating websites. Demographic and personality-based correlates of using smartphone-based dating applications among emerging adults. Mobile dating is more common with an increasing number of smartphone applications coming to market that aim to facilitate dating.
In the current study, we investigated how dating app use and motivations related to demographic identity variables i. Nearly half of the sample used dating apps regularly, with Tinder being the most popular. Non-users were more likely to be heterosexual, high in dating anxiety, and low in sexual permissiveness than dating app users.
Among app users, dating app motivations, that is, relational goal motivations love, casual sex , intrapersonal goal motivations self-worth validation, ease of communication , and entertainment goal motivations thrill of excitement, trendiness , were meaningfully related to identity features, for example, sexual permissiveness was related to the casual sex motive. However, more research is needed to study how sexual orientation influences mobile dating. Role of Peer Relations. Factors associated with romantic relationship formation difficulties in women with breast cancer.
Many un-partnered women report difficulty in forming romantic relationships after breast cancer, characterized by high dating-related anxiety and low perceived interpersonal competence. This study examined the relationship between poor body image appearance investment and body dissatisfaction and self-compassion, and women's ability to form romantic relationships post-breast cancer. Multiple regression analyses assessed the relationships between these variables. Partnered and un-partnered women differed in levels of dating anxiety, interpersonal competence, anxious attachment and the self-evaluative salience facet of appearance investment.
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Analyses revealed a significant model for dating anxiety, with high self-evaluative salience, body image dissatisfaction, and attachment avoidance independently associated with this outcome. The model for interpersonal competence was also significant, with low attachment avoidance and high self-compassion independently associated with this outcome.
Un-partnered women who place high importance on appearance for their self-worth, and who report poor body image and low self-compassion are at risk of experiencing difficulties in forming new romantic relationships after breast cancer. Future interventions should target these variables to facilitate romantic dating during cancer survivorship.
The success with which one does so is both predicted by and subsequently affects psychological well-being. This chapter reviews the literature on the associations between psychopathology and youth romantic relationships and experiences. We focus particularly on internalizing and externalizing disorders, for which the bulk of the literature exists.
Following the reviews of specific disorders and symptoms, we review the emerging literature on psychopathology and same-sex relationships among youth. We then address key peer and family contexts in which psychopathology and skills for romantic relationships are developing, and we discuss the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology and romantic dysfunction.
The chapter closes with discussions of methodological issues and implications for prevention and intervention, emphasizing the need for ongoing basic research that can translate into novel approaches that can treat or prevent youth romantic dysfunction and psychopathology. Jun Marriage Fam Rev. The psychological well-being of emerging adult, college students may relate to their success in romantic relationships. Low attachment anxiety and social distress in group dating situations and high levels of self-efficacy in romantic relationships predicted happiness.
Low attachment anxiety and high self-efficacy predicted low psychological distress. Less fear of negative evaluation from a dating partner and high self-efficacy in romantic relationships predicted self-esteem. Given the findings of self-efficacy in romantic relationships on well-being, relationship education is recommended. Relational Anxiety and Sexting. Individuals in pursuit of, or currently in, a romantic relationship typically communicate via technology, extending to sexting with one another.
Sexting is commonly understood as the sending and receiving of sexually suggestive or sexually explicit photos, video, or text via cell phone or other technologies.
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The characteristics that fuel whether one engages in sexting are not well understood. In general, low attachment avoidance and high fear of negative evaluation from the dating partner predicted sending a sexually suggestive photo or video, sending a photo or video in one's underwear or lingerie, and sending a sexually suggestive text.
High fear of negative evaluation predicted sending a nude photo or video as well as sending a text message propositioning sex. Low attachment avoidance, greater fear of negative evaluation, and greater social distress when dating were associated with sexting behaviors.
The Personal and Social Dynamics of Shyness. Pilkonis and Zimbardo provide us with a rich array of new information on the emotion of shyness. Their empirical data improve our conceptualization of shyness and our understanding of its antecedents and its consequences for the individual and his or her social surround. Adolescent Perceptions of Problematic Heterosocial Situations: A Focus Group Study.
Despite the increasing frequency and prominence of other-sex interactions in adolescence, surprisingly little is known about their role in social development and adjustment. This study sought to take an initial step toward a better understanding of such interactions through the development of a taxonomy of teen-identified problematic heterosocial situations. For this purpose, a transcription-based content analysis of 10 same-sex focus groups composed of a total of 58 adolescents was utilized.
Nine distinct themes of problematic heterosocial situations encompassing dyadic interactions within the bounds of casual relationships, friendships, romantic relationships, working relationships, and abusive relationships emerged. The Dating Anxiety Scale for Adolescents: Scale development and associations with adolescent functioning.
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