Abstract: Adolescent romantic relationships refer to mutually acknowledged ongoing voluntary interactions, commonly marked by intense expressions of affection and perhaps current or anticipated sexual behavior. The research orientation mostly include biosocial orientation, cognitive representations orientation, and development-contextual orientation. Currently, there are three validated research methods: self-report, observation method, and video recall method. Some of researches have focused on dealing with influencing factors of adolescent romantic relationships, such as individual factors, interpersonal factors and social factors. Adolescent romantic relationships research arena is still in its infancy, thus, further studies integrating research theoretically are essential, with the stability of relationships quality, mechanisms of microsystem and representative sampling.

Key words: adolescent romantic relationships, development-contextual orientation, video recall method, interpersonal factors