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Review
. 2014 Jun;37(4):433-40.
doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.03.009. Epub 2014 Apr 2.

The development of adolescent self-regulation: reviewing the role of parent, peer, friend, and romantic relationships

Julee P Farley  1 , Jungmeen Kim-Spoon  2
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The development of adolescent self-regulation: reviewing the role of parent, peer, friend, and romantic relationships

Julee P Farley et al. J Adolesc. 2014 Jun.

Abstract

Self-regulation plays an important role in adolescent development, predicting success in multiple domains including school and social relationships. While researchers have paid increasing attention to the influence of parents on the development of adolescent self-regulation, we know little about the influence of peers and friends and even less about the influence of romantic partners on adolescent development of self-regulation. Extant studies examined a unidirectional model of self-regulation development rather than a bidirectional model of self-regulation development. Given that relationships and self-regulation develop in tandem, a model of bidirectional development between relationship context and adolescent self-regulation may be relevant. This review summarizes extant literature and proposes that in order to understand how adolescent behavioral and emotional self-regulation develops in the context of social relationships one must consider that each relationship builds upon previous relationships and that self-regulation and relationship context develop bidirectionally.

Keywords: Adolescent self-regulation; Bidirectional development; Parent–adolescent relationship; Peer relationship; Romantic relationship.

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