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- Title
Influencia de la auto-eficacia social y el apoyo social en la calidad de las relaciones de pareja adolescentes.
- Authors
Mérida Serrano, Rosario; González Alfaya, Elena; Olivares García, Maria Ángeles
- Abstract
This study analyses the characteristics of adolescent relationships and influence that has social self-efficacy and social support. A number of 209 youth (49.3% boys) aged between 12-18 years (X=14.28; D.T.=1.21), enrolled in three centers of compulsory secondary education of Cordoba, completed a selfreport consisting of open-ended questions that reported the sex, age, educational level and relationship status, and a set of instruments measured on Likert scale that explored the quality of couples, self-efficacy and social support. Descriptive and correlational analysis indicated a high involvement in romantic relationships, showing more satisfaction and future expectatives boys and older participants. It is detected that teenagers with more social self-efficacy had more skills to handle the demands of a relationship. We discuss the results based on the importance that have positive peer group relationships and social support with respect to the quality of these couples.
- Publication
Psychology, Society & Education, 2015, Vol 7, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
2171-2085
- Publication type
Article