During adolescence, as individuals establish romantic relationships, other relationships with friends may decrease. This illustrates how throughout life, some dimensions or components of a dimension expand and others shrink, or how development is:

multidirectional.

Explanation:

Multidirectional development: The term multidirectional development refers to the process of development in which the development of an individual occurs i. e, it says that development doesn't occur linearly rather it carries the capacity of increasing and decreasing in efficacy over different phases of an individual's life.

Human beings development encompasses a multidisciplinary, plastic, multidimensional, contextual, and multidirectional.

In the question above, the given statement states multidirectional development.