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Understanding and Applying in the Adolescent’s Dating on the Minding

장미수 1 LEE Jeeyon 2 이지연 3

1삼성 SDI
2인천대학교
3Seton Hall University

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ABSTRACT

One report showed that over 50% of adolescents in Korea report having a romantic relationship at any given time. Although having a date is popular now among teenagers, there's no sufficient education service about how to maintain and enhance dating relationships for adolescent so far. Based on these notions, this article presents Harvey and Omarzu(1997)'s Minding Theory, concentrated on maintaining relationships. Minding process has five components: knowing one's partner, relationship-enhancing attribution, acceptance and respect, reciprocity, and continuity. We compared the theory of minding with several other concepts “self-expansion, self-verification, empathic accuracy, equity, social penetration theory, and attachment” well known for contributing to achieve satisfaction in close relationship for better understanding of minding. We also suggested some researches of whethere minding is observale and positively influential in couples, and evidence of minding theory. A few limitations of this study as well as possibilities and implications in youth counseling were discussed.

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