| Summary: | 碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士班 === 95 === The main purpose of this study was to explore the situation of adolescents’ love experience and the correlations among parent factors, peer group factors, romantic beliefs, love experiences, and romantic relationships. The research started with a questionnaire survey of 1031 senior high school students in Hsinchu and Miaoli area. Research tools included the scales of “Parent-Child Interaction and Parent’s Attitudes toward Child’s Heterosexual Relationships”, “Interaction with Peers and Peers’ Attitudes toward Child’s Heterosexual Relationships”, “Romantic Relationships”, and “Romantic Beliefs”. Data collected from 510 participants who had love experiences and answered “the Scale of Romantic Relationship” were analyzed by statistical methods including descriptive statistics, independent sample t test, Pearson product-moment correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The findings of this study are summarized as follows:
1. The situation of senior high school students’ heterosexual relationships:
The percentage54.7% of senior high school students with love experiences in Hsinchu and Miaoli area is. The percentage of girls is higher than that of boys. In general, the duration of each relationship is less than a year.
2. The correlation of parent factors and senior high school students’ love experiences:
The more the mother agrees her children’s heterosexual relationships in adolescence, the smaller the age that her children started love experiences is. The more positive attitude the mother takes toward her children’s heterosexual relationships in adolescence, the more the number of times her children had love experiences is.
3. The differences between boys and girls in parent factors, peer group factors, romantic beliefs, and love experiences:
1) Girls are closer to their mothers than boys, and fathers tend to hold more affirmative attitudes to their sons’ heterosexual relationships than to their daughters’.
2) Girls have more intimate emotional connection with peers than boys. They receive more support from peers and have more frequent and intimate interaction with peers.
3) Boys have more romantic beliefs in heterosexual relationships than girls.
4) The average age of boys’ first loves is the age of 13.73, in the stage of junior high school, and is earlier than the average age of girls’.
5) In heterosexual relationships boys are more attracted by physiological external conditions, have more idealization of romantic relationships, and expect more sexual contact.
4. the correlations between various variables and romantic relationship:
1) The higher closeness with their mothers the children report, the higher relationship qualities they feel, and date with other-sex friends more frequently. The more their mothers agree their heterosexual relationships, the more easily senior high school students are attracted by the physiological external conditions of the other sex, and date more frequently with boyfriends/girlfriends.
2) They who have more intimate feelings with peers are more attracted by the physiological external conditions of romantic partners, perceive more intimacy and support from romantic relationships, more easily idealize romantic relationships, and date more frequently. The more support adolescents perceive from peers, the more intimate and supportive they are in romantic relationships, the more they tend to idealize romantic relationships, and they date more frequently. The more frequently adolescents interact with peers, the more intimate and supportive they are in romantic relationships, the more they tend to idealize romantic relationships, and they date more frequently.
3) The more romantic beliefs in love adolescents have, the more they tend to idealize the relationships in developing romantic relationships, the more intimacy and support they perceive, the more attracted by appearances of the other sex they are, and they date with boyfriends/girlfriends more frequently.
4) The younger adolescents are when they have love experiences, the more they idealize the relationships with partners, and the more they think their partners or relationships unique. They who have more times of love experiences perceive higher intimacy and support from romantic relationships, tend to idealize the relationships with romantic partners more easily, and date more frequently.
5. The gender, parent factors, peer group factors, romantic beliefs, and love experiences of adolescents have distinct predictability on romantic relationships. In each dimension of romantic relationships, the collective projective efficacy of these variables has the highest predictability on the idealization of relationships.
Based on the results of this study, suggestions are made for parents, school counselors, and researchers to carry out gender equality education, affection guidance, and adolescent researches.
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