They can help cope with traumatic life events, help an individual maintain a healthy lifestyle, help avoid loneliness, provide a sense of beloning, self-worth and self-confidence.
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What can having friends reduce?
Stress and depression, can also give a boost of happiness.
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What do peer groups have an influence on in young people?
Values, views and opinions
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What effect does peer pressure have?
It can be challenging for young people and their families, e.g.: enouraging dangerous behaviour.
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How do young children make friends?
Based on play, they can quickly fall out with each other and just as quickly make up.
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How are relationships with older children, adolescents and adults different?
They are more complex and may involve much more than a friendship.
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What are informal relationships?
They develop within families and significant people in individual's lives.
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When do informal relationships start?
In infancy and develop into strong bonds as they are bilt on trust and understanding.
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What do informal relationships promote?
A positive self-concept that prepares adolescents and adults for developing intimate relationships that show mutual respect.
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What are formal relationships?
They develop in different contexts between people who are not related or friends. They don't involve emotional attachments but are importnat to social development.
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What happens during infancy?
Infants have an in-built tendency to interact with carers. They make their first relationships as they form an emotional attachment to carers.
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What happens in early childhood?
Children learn social roles and behaviour within the family (primary socialisation), and they learn to co-operate with other children (co-operative play). Near the eand of this life stage children form circles of friends who get on with each other.
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What happens in adolescence?
A person's sense of self-worth may be more influenced by their peers than their family. Some adolescents have a smooth transition to adult roles whereas others may have a difficult time.
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What happens in adulthood?
Early adulthood is mostly dominated by forming intimate partnerships and the need to find employment or a career. In middle adulthood people may experience time pressures that may limit their social activity.
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What happens in later adulthood?
After retirement, older adults have more free time to develop friendships. Some may choose to increase their involvement with close friends and family rather than extending their network of social contacts.
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Card 2
Front
What can having friends reduce?
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Stress and depression, can also give a boost of happiness.
Card 3
Front
What do peer groups have an influence on in young people?
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