Thirty-one couples and their daughters participated in a study of the contribution of family and friendship relationships in adolescence, and of daughter/friend communication in adulthood to the adult daughters' perception of friendship support in adulthood. Questionnaires and direct observation of communication skills were used to evaluate marital quality, parental quality, and friendship quality at Time 1 (T1). At Time 2 (T2), 7 years later, daughters and their best friends completed questionnaires and videotaped social support interactions. A hierarchical regression model was used to predict daughters' perception of friendship support in adulthood. The findings indicated that higher levels of T1 mother/father marital satisfaction, higher levels of T1 mother/daughter positive communication, lower levels of T1 mother/ daughter negative communication, and higher levels of T2 daughters' validation during communication with best friend uniquely predicted higher levels of T2 daughters' perception of friendship support. The findings suggest that family relationship quality in adolescence contributes to children's ability to develop and maintain adaptive resources for coping with stress in adulthood.
ResumeGinquante sept families avec adolescentes participent a une ^tude portant sur le lien entre, d'une part, la qualite des relations familiales et amicales a l'adolescence et, d'autre part, la quality des relations familiales, amicales et amoureuses des adolescentes 6valu6es 7 ans plus tard. Des mesures observationnelles et des questionnaires sont utilises pour examiner les liens entre ces variables. Des analyses de regression indiquent que la satisfaction conjugale de la m&re, ses conflits conjugaux et la qualite de la relation que la mfere entretient avec sa fille a l'adolescence sont relics a la satisfaction amoureuse de la fille k l'age adulte. Par ailleurs, seules les variables parentales sont reli&s a la quality des relations amicales k l'age adulte. Gette ^tude met en lumifere l'importance de la quality des relations familiales a l'adolescence dans la prediction de la quality des relations interpersonnelles a l'age adulte. AbstractFifty-seven families with adolescent children participated in a study of a) the quality of family and friendship relationships in adolescence, and b) the quality of family, friendship, and romantic relationships of adolescents 7 years later. Observation measures and self-report questionnaires were used to examine the variables. Regression analyses showed that mothers' marital satisfaction, conjugal conflict, and quality of mother-daughter relationship in adolescence predicted daughters' satisfaction with romantic relationships in adulthood. However, only the parental variables during adolescence predicted the quality of friendship relationships in adulthood. This study highlighted the contribution that quality of family relationships in adolescence makes to the quality of interpersonal relationships in adulthood.
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