A Longitudinal Study of Hong Kong Adolescents' and Parents' Perceptions of Family Functioning and Well-Being

Abstract

In this longitudinal study, the relationships between Hong Kong Chinese adolescents' and parents' discrepancies in their perceptions of family functioning and adolescents' psychological well-being were investigated via adolescents' and parents' reports of family functioning (N = 378 families). Results showed that discrepancies in perceptions of family functioning between adolescents and parents were related to adolescents' feelings of hopelessness, life satisfaction, self-esteem, purpose in life, and general psychiatric morbidity at Time 1 and Time 2. Longitudinal and prospective analyses (Time 1 predictors predicting Time 2 criterion variables) suggested that the relationship between discrepancies in perceptions of family functioning and adolescents' psychological well-being are bidirectional. Adolescent-father and adolescent-mother discrepancies had similar effects on adolescents' psychological well-being. The negative impact of discrepancies among family members in perceptions of family functioning on adolescents' psychological well-being was greater for adolescent girls than for adolescent boys.

Associations Between Measures of Emotion and Familial Dynamics in Normative Families With Adolescents

“…Furthermore, Ohannessian et al (2000) found larger parent-daughter Adaptability discrepancy scores to be positively associated with only academic achievement, whereas further parent-daughter differences were negatively associated with self-competence measures in girls as expected. In addition, larger mother-son discrepancy scores for Adaptability were inversely related to perceived self-competence variables in boys, whereas larger father-son discrepancies for familial adjustment were positively related to boys'self-competence measures, similar to the findings of Carlson et al (1991) and Shek (1998).…”

“…Indeed, Shek (1998) found that larger fatherson discrepancy scores at time 1 predicted lower levels of psychiatric morbidity in boys at time 2, again suggesting that boys holding discrepant views on family functioning from their parents are better adjusted. However, in girls, larger parent-adolescent discrepancy scores at time 1 predicted lower levels of life Satisfaction and higher levels of hopelessness at time 2.…”

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“…Além disso, é preciso considerar que os filhos tendem a apresentar uma visão mais negativa das interações familiares na adolescência (Shek, 1998). Nesse sentido, torna-se fundamental que haja maior comunicação familiar (Weber & cols., 2004), que os pais possam explicitar aos filhos as razões de seu comportamento e que os filhos possam apontar a percepção que têm das práticas parentais.…”

“…Quanto à prevalência, os estilos autoritativo e negligente costumam predominar, seguidos pelos estilos autoritário e indulgente (Costa, Teixeira, & Gomes, 2000;Lamborn & cols., 1991;Reppold & Hutz, 2003;Pacheco & cols., 1999;Weber, Prado, Viezzer & Brandenburg, 2004). A percepção do comportamento parental também se altera com a idade, sendo que crianças tendem a ter uma visão mais positiva, e adolescentes uma visão mais negativa do comportamento dos pais (Shek, 1998).…”