Adolescent romantic competence and parenting attitudes

Shulman, Shmuel; Scharf, Miri; Bohr, Yvonne; Tuval‐Mashiach, Rivka; Hirsh, Yuval; Faians, Maya

doi:10.1177/0265407516650760

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“…Regarding this last point, it is essential that future studies examine in more detail how sexuality-specific parenting of fathers and mothers affects boys and girls differently. Indeed, gender intensification theory (Hill and Lynch 1983 ) and emprical research suggests that supportive attitudes towards romantic and sexual experimentation may be sex-linked, and more pronounced in father–son and mother–daughter dyads (Shulman et al 2017 ). Second, our present study was not informative specifically about the development of LGBT adolescents, but rather dealth with adolescents with mostly heterosexual identities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents’ Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development

Overbeek

Bongardt

Baams

2018

J Youth Adolescence

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One main source of sexual socialization lies within family interactions. Especially sexuality-specific parenting may determine adolescents’ sexual development—adolescents’ sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior, sexualized media consumption and permissive sexual attitudes—to a significant extent, but different ideas exist about how this works. In this longitudinal study, we examined two hypotheses on how sexuality-specific parenting—parenting aimed specifically at children’s sexual attitudes and behaviors—relates to adolescents’ sexual development. A first buffer hypothesis states that parents’ instructive media discussions with their children—called instructive mediation—buffers the effect of sexualized media consumption on adolescents’ sexual attitudes and behavior and, vice versa, the effect of adolescents’ sexual attitudes and behavior on sexualized media consumption. A second brake hypothesis states that parents, by communicating love-and-respect oriented sexual norms, slow down adolescents’ development toward increased sexualized media use, permissive sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior. Using four-wave longitudinal data from 514 Dutch adolescents aged 13–16 years (49.8% female), we found evidence to support a brake effect. More frequent parental communication of love-and-respect oriented sexual norms was associated with less permissive sexual attitudes and, for boys, with less advanced sexual behavior and a less rapid increase in sexual risk behavior. Parents’ instructive mediation regarding adolescents’ sexualized media consumption was associated with less permissive sexual attitudes at baseline, but only for girls. No systematic evidence emerged for a buffer effect of parents’ instructive mediation. In conclusion, although our data seem to suggest that parent–child communication about sex is oftentimes “after the fact”, we also find that more directive parental communication that conveys love-and-respect oriented sexual norms brake adolescents’ move toward sexual maturity.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents’ Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development

Overbeek

Bongardt

Baams

2018

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Maternal, not paternal, support was found to predict the pathway of the romantic involvements of their emerging adult children. Past research suggests that while mothers encourage involvement in intimate relationships, fathers tend rather to accept, and even support, romantic and sexual experimentation (Shulman et al, 2016). This could explain why paternal support was not associated with the whereabouts of the romantic explorations of their emerging adult children.…”

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confidence: 99%

The diversity of romantic pathways during emerging adulthood and their developmental antecedents

Shulman

Seiffge‐Krenke²,

Scharf

et al. 2016

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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The present study examined patterns of romantic pathways in 100 Israeli emerging adults (54 males) who were followed from age 22 to 29 years. Analyses of interviews at age 29 yielded four distinctive romantic pathways differing in stability and ability to learn from romantic experiences: Sporadic, Lengthy Relationships but Absence of Experiential Learning, Moving from Casual to Steady Involvements, and Steady Relationships. Low efficacy, immature dependency, and level of maternal support measured 7 years earlier, predicted less optimal romantic pathways; Sporadic, and Lengthy relationships but absence of experiential learning. Distinctive gender pathways suggested that men are more likely to embark on a sporadic romantic pathway, while women tend more to prefer a stable romantic pathway. Findings of the study suggest that gender, intrapersonal capabilities, and maternal support can predict the pattern of the romantic pathway on which young people embark during their twenties.

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“…Parenting attitudes and practices regarding adolescent romantic relationships are impacted by gender. For instance, mothers tend to encourage sons and daughters to develop intimacy in relationships, while fathers may encourage sons to experiment in their relationships (Shulman et al., 2017). Further, a meta‐analysis by Widman, Choukas‐Bradley, Noar, Nesi, and Garrett (2016) revealed that parent communication about sex, particularly from mothers, can promote safer sexual behaviors in adolescents.…”

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We Know Even More Things: A Decade Review of Parenting Research

Morris

Ratliff

Cosgrove

et al. 2021

J of Research on Adolesc

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In this article, we highlight the important ideas that have emerged from research on parenting and adolescent development over the past decade. Beginning with research on authoritative parenting, we examine key elements of this parenting style and its influence across diverse contexts and populations. We turn our attention to four topics that have generated much research in the past decade: (1) how parenting contributes to adolescent peer and romantic relationships; (2) the impact of parenting on adolescent brain development; (3) gene‐environment interactions in parenting research; and (4) parents’ involvement in adolescents’ social media use. We discuss contemporary challenges and ways parents can promote healthy development. We consider the integration of research, practice, and policy that best supports parents and adolescents.

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Adolescent romantic competence and parenting attitudes

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents’ Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development

Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents’ Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development

The diversity of romantic pathways during emerging adulthood and their developmental antecedents

We Know Even More Things: A Decade Review of Parenting Research

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