A high school couple at prom. ; Credit: E M via Flickr
A study out of the University of Denver finds that people who started dating in high school tend to have more productive romantic relationships later in life.
The study followed 200 tenth-graders — half male, half female — from middle- to upper-middle class backgrounds for nine years and found that quality high school romance benefits the psychological and social growth of teens.
The study,“Quality Counts: Developmental Shifts in Associations Between Romantic Relationship Qualities and Psychosocial Adjustment,” was published this month in the journal "Child Development".
Guest:
Wyndol Furman, Professor of Psychology at University of Denver. He is one of the coauthors of the study, “Quality Counts: Developmental Shifts in Associations Between Romantic Relationship Qualities and Psychosocial Adjustment.”
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