Exotic Enterprise No More? Adolescent Reports of Family and Parenting Processes From Youth in Four Countries

Abstract

The current investigation cross-nationally examined the relationship between adolescent reports of family or parenting processes and a series of developmental outcomes in a sample of adolescents (N 5 8,417) from Hungary, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Based on confirmatory factor analyses and tests of scalar equivalence, results suggest that the Adolescent Family Process Measure (AFP), which assesses maternal and paternal closeness, support, monitoring, communication, conflict, and peer approval, was valid and reliable for males, females, middle adolescents, and late adolescents in all four national contexts. In addition, based on model-free LISREL analyses, findings suggested that the relationships between these family processes and measures of adolescent externalizing (alcohol use, drug use, school misconduct, and total deviance) and internalizing (anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and low well-being) behaviors were similar cross-nationally. Findings are discussed in terms of their importance for the conceptualization and measurement of family and parenting processes.In the current investigation, three important gaps in the literature were addressed. First, consistent with a recent call issued by Gray and Steinberg (1999;Steinberg, 2001) to ''unpack'' the most frequently studied parenting typologies (e.g., authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive; Baumrind, JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE, 13(2), 129-160

Personalidad, estilos parentales y Desviación Social en Adolescentes Españoles

“…Despite the fact that the effects by perceived closeness and communication do not follow such a clear pattern, in the cases where the variables are significant, they are always negative. That is, positive parenting processes are, in principle, sufficient to reduce the likelihood of different measures of deviance (Baumrind, 1991;Maccoby & Martin, 1983;Torrente & Vazsonyi, 2008, 2009Vazsonyi et al, 2003).…”

“…A measure of social class was also included; participants indicated the educational levels of both the father and mother; response categories included: (a) finished elemen- Parenting Processes. Perceived parenting behaviors were assessed with the Adolescent Family Processes (AFP) measure (Vazsonyi et al, 2003). Fourteen items assessed three subscales, for the mother and the father, namely Closeness (6 items, e.g., "My mother/father often asks about what I am doing in school"), Communication (5 items, e.g., "How often do you talk to your mother/father about major personal decisions") and Conflict (3 items, e.g., "How often do you get angry at your mother/father").…”

“…A anales de psicología, 2012, vol. 28, nº 3 (octubre) number of previous investigations have found negative associations between perceived closeness, support, or communication and deviance (e.g., Baumrind, 1978Baumrind, , 1991Lamborn, Mounts, Steinberg, & Dornbusch, 1991;Maccoby & Martin, 1983;Torrente & Vazsonyi, 2008, 2009Vazsonyi, Hibbert, & Snider, 2003;Vazsonyi et al, 2006). Other studies have also established the important positive effect of perceived conflict with parents on externalizing behavior problems (e.g., Rodríguez & Torrente, 2003;Torrente, 2002Torrente, , 2005).…”

Análisis Psicométrico de la Escala Parental Breve (EPB): Invarianza Demográfica y Longitudinal en Adolescentes Chilenos

“…No obstante, persisten algunas interrogantes respecto de la manera apropiada de medir el estilo parental (Darling & Toyokawa, 1997) y las características de algunas prácticas (e.g., monitoreo, Fletcher et al, 2004;Soenens & Vansteenkiste, 2005;, así como preguntas relativas a la capacidad de generalización de los resultados en diferentes poblaciones (Vazsonyi, Hibbert & Snider, 2003).…”

The development, dissemination and evaluation of a psychoeducational parenting program for use within the adolescent drug and alcohol treatment field

“…In summary, the current literature overwhelmingly recognises the impact of parents and parenting practices on adolescent behaviour, lifestyle choices and drug use (e.g., Azrin et al, 2001;Jovic-Vranes, Vranes, Marinkovic & Cucic, 2005;Liddle et al, 2001;Spooner, 1999;Vazsonyi, Hibbert & Blake Snider, 2003) Substance use and the family have traditionally been examined using a mental health perspective to understand the interactions between the user and family members (Velleman and Templeton, 2007). These models are fairly universally adopted and typically recognise abnormal interactional patterns as contributing to the maintenance of substance misuse.…”