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    Sullivan believed that caregiver relationships were most important in infancy and early childhood for fulfilling physical needs, while friendships became central in adolescence for emotional support and belonging. However, "co-rumination", or excessive discussion of problems with friends, can have downsides like increased depression, anxiety, and future peer stress. While friendship is important, adolescents may also benefit from other coping skills beyond dwelling on problems with friends.

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    PSY120_V2 | Topic 6: Adolescence

    Theory Essay Example


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    PSY120

    Theory Essay

    31 July 2023

    Caregiver Relationships

    Harry Stack Sullivan was a developmental psychologist

    interested in the ways in which close relationships impact people

    across their lives. Specifically, Sullivan believed that different kinds

    of relationships were important at different times in development.

    During infancy and early childhood, he thought that caregiver


    relationships were most important, because they fulfilled a child’s

    physical needs like food, shelter, and safety. In his work, Sullivan
    was building on earlier psychodynamic and attachment theories
    that focused on the importance of children’s relationships with

    their caregivers in terms of shaping personality and emotions In


    later childhood and into adolescence, Sullivan believed that friends

    became more important. At adolescence, Sullivan thought that


    close friendships were central to development, because friends

    offer support and emotional closeness as kids grow up and start


    to have relationships outside of the family.
    I think Sullivan was right about friendships being so important

    in adolescence. During this time, kids are very concerned about


    belonging to the group and about what others think of them.
    Having friends is important so that kids have someone to hang out

    with and talk to. Talking with friends is one way kids get support
    for their problems. The research articles talk about how getting

    social support is important, but that too much of a certain kind of


    support, co-rumination, might not be so great.

    Co-rumination is defined as the excessive discussion of

    problems with a friend, and it involves rehashing, speculating,

    focusing on negative feelings, and both friends encouraging the


    problem talk to keep going (Rose, 2021). On the one hand, co-

    rumination may benefit adolescents, because it is related to more

    positive and higher quality friendships. This means that friends


    trust each other and support one another. However, there are

    downsides, or tradeoffs, to co-rumination. In her 2021 paper, Rose

    says that co-rumination is linked with internalizing symptoms,

    which means symptoms of depression and anxiety. Rose and


    colleagues (2017) also found that girls who co-ruminate a lot with

    their friends can actually increase the amount of peer stress that

    occurs in their lives in the future. This means that co-rumination


    may serve a stress generation function (Rose et al., 2017).

    If Dr. Sullivan talked with Dr. Rose today, I think maybe he would
    be surprised that there might be downsides to certain types of

    social support, like co-rumination. Back when Sullivan was

    working on his theory, he may not have thought about what


    happens when people get too much of a certain kind of social

    support. Focusing too much on your problems with friends might


    actually not be the best thing for some people. Sullivan might want

    to update his theory to say that getting social support from your

    friends for your problems might be a little like eating cake: it’s
    good to have some (because it’s important for a good life), but you

    don’t want to only eat cake. Once in a while it’s good to get some

    vegetables, too. In other words, social support from friends is


    important, but having a healthy life will involve other coping skills,

    like being physically active, doing things you’re good at, and maybe

    even talking to a therapist instead of just dwelling with your friends


    on how bad your problems make you feel.

    References

    Rose (2021). The costs and benefits of co-rumination. Child

    Development Perspectives, 15, 176-181.

    Rose, A. J., Glick, G. C., Smith, R. L., Schwartz-Mette, R. A.,

    Borowski, S. K. (2017). Co-rumination exacerbates stress


    generation among adolescents with depressive symptoms.

    Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45, 985-995.


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