Hall described adolescence as a "genetic period of storm and stress" (Hall 1972). Submersed in this storm and stress, adolescents gradually open their view to the world and go on a search for a more intimate experience of their peers in their community. That is to say, romantic involvement (RI) typically starts and increases in adolescence (Furman 1999). Simone de Beauvoir regards the young woman's process through adolescence as centred on "awaiting Man". (Simone 1956). In fact, Adolescent Romantic Love has been a popular theme in literature and is an integral part of our daily life.

 In China, however, Adolescent Romantic Love is a sensitive issue and is commonly forbidden in most schools.   Few adults take this issue into discussion with their up growing children. Even so, boys and girls inevitably have yet frequent encounters with Adolescent Romantic Love. Without formal emotional education and the guidance from teachers or parents, some severe problems arise for Chinese young adolescents when pursuing intimate relationships, such as being trapped into in depression emotions. The challenge facing women is extra daunting. For once adolescents' romantic relationship has been discovered, girls are usually perceived as the ones most deserving blame (most at fault). In previous studies, little attention has been paid to the experience of love by female adolescents, which has caught my attention. The first questions that come to mind are about the real romantic experience of girls in adolescence, and what it means for female adolescents’ personal growth?
This study attempts to inquire into their individual experiences and explore the possible relationships between adolescent romantic love and their personal growth in China’s context. Following are the sub-questions: 1) What is the female experience in adolescence? 2) What is the interactive situational mechanisms of adolescent love and how adolescent girls act when they are involved in romantic love? 3) What impact does adolescent romantic
love have on female adolescents’ expressions, social interaction, and academic growth?

This research requires a narrative methodology. Semi-structured qualitative interviews with 12 female university students as the primary research participants were conducted with three male students as reference participants. Students were invited to retrace their adolescent experience. All participants would sign informed consent after being told the research purpose and research details. All participants can withdraw from the research at any time. Then the researcher will delete the related information of these participants from the research. In this research, the orientation of the type of narrative is to people's own stories of their experiences and their retrospective meaning-making, which sometimes even focuses on the way those stories represent culture, politics, and norms. In this case, all participants are adult women and men, and the narrative is retrospective reflections on their romantic experiences when they were adolescents. The stories, then, reflect that meaning-making over the years, not "in the moment" experiences. Qualitative methods were adopted to analyze the data. The analytical process followed a grounded way and focused on the following: 1) Women's adolescent experience, which includes body image, academic life, emotional world, etc. In this part, the life story of each participant is presented. 2) The interactive situational mechanism of adolescent romantic love. According to the stories, an interpretation and conclusion were made to outline the process of how adolescent romantic love happens. 3) The character of adolescent love and female choices and actions. 4) The impact of adolescent love on female personal growth. In this research, the orientation of the type of narrative is to people's own stories of their experiences and their retrospective meaning-making, which sometimes even focuses on the way those stories represent culture, politics, and norms. In this case, all participants are adult women and men, and the narrative is retrospective reflections on their romantic experiences when they were adolescents. The stories, then, reflect that meaning-making over the years, not "in the moment" experiences.

Theme 1: In physical development, girls leave behind childhood and grow into maturity, as well as acquire sexual awareness. Adolescent girls' exploration of sex is internal, which is happened to find their own body feeling. Whilst the boy's sexual impulse has a kind of outward conquest, it contains a kind of aggression. Theme 2: Girls' recognition of love is based on imagination and relationship building. The public space and everyday life of the school provide a matrix for adolescent love. Waiting, Ambiguity, and Uncertainty are essential characteristics of germination and further development of love. Theme 3: Adolescent love is often disparaged, and one commonly fails to recognise it as an archetype of the individual's establishment of identity and exploration of intimacy. Dividing the girls' love-involvement in this research constituted two basic types of adolescent love: in and -out of the peer group. Theme 4: There are two passive aspects girls come to encounter: 1)the boy's attempt to interrupt the girl, trying to entangle the girl in a romantic relationship. Meanwhile, the involvement of sexual behaviour brings risks to girls. 2) The school and parents' longing to provide refuge to girls and the corollary moral requirements of "being a girl" cast a shadow on the growth of Females. Adolescent love, as an intimate emotion leading to the individual world, is a kind of shy or active, full-hearted, or uncontrollable sprout for women, and it is a tendency of impulse and emotion. For some girls, adolescent love is a growth ritual which has changed their lives and their perception of themselves. Its charm lies in the unknown, in the establishment of relationships, and in providing a way to explore oneself while being a way to bridge one's shortcomings. It may empower female growth. However, the existing educational scene still excludes intimacy.

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