Development And Influential Factors Of Adolescents’ Romantic Relationship Incidence And Its Relationship With Academic Achievement

Romantic relationship is formed through the communication between couples, includingintimacy, passion and commitment. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in thestudy of adolescents’ romantic relationship. However, currently in China, the majority of thestudies on this issue are introductions or syntheses of educators’ experiences, whereasempirical studies are few. The adolescents’ romantic relationship is a key feature of theirsocial worlds and influenced by their family and peer factors, and it is closely related to theiracademic achievement. This study mainly talk about the developmental characteristics ofadolescents’ romantic relationship. To invest whether the implicit attitude about the romanticrelationship and the attachment of parent and peer are important influence factors to thehappen of romantic relationship in adolescent. And we explore the relationships between theromantic relationship and the academic achievement. It’ll provide the theoretical basis andpractical guidance for the early interference and education of adolescents’ romanticrelationship.By means of combination of experiments and questionnaire, we study204adolescentsaged12～18year old. Firstly, we design the Implicit Relational Association Procedure (IRAP)to invest the development status of the happen of romantic relationship in adolescent.Secondly, through the Single Category Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT), we invest the agecharacteristics and gender differences of implicit attitude about the romantic relationship.Meanwhile, adolescents accomplish the questionnaire of “The Inventory of Parent and PeerAttachment (IPPA)”, in order to research the prediction of implicit attitude about theromantic relationship and attachment of parent and peer on the happen of romanticrelationship in adolescent. Thirdly, the questionnaire of “The Experiences in CloseRelationships (ECR)” are assigned to the students. And we also collect their academicachievement in order to explore the relationship between adolescents’ romantic relationshipand academic achievement.The results show that:(1) There is distinct grade difference in the adolescents’ development of the incidence ofromantic relationship and the Grade One in high school is the critical period. With thedevelopment of grade, the overall trend is increasing at first and then a slightly downward.There is no significant gender differences in boys and girls.The boys’ overall score is slightlyhigher than girls’.(2) Adolescents’ implicit attitude about the romantic relationship has a significant difference in grade. With the development of age, the supportive of romantic relationship isincreasing, but a slightly downward in Grade Three in high school. And there is no statisticalsignificance in boys and girls.(3) The occurrence of romantic relationship has significant negative correlation with thescore of the attachment of mother. And the happen of romantic relationship also hassignificant negative correlation with the score of the attachment of peer. The attachment ofmother can predict their happen of romantic relationship in certain degree.(4) There is closely relationship between the adolescents’ romantic relationship andacademic achievement. Adolescents in different status of romantic relationship havestatistical significance in academic achievement.