Individual Differences in Adolescents’ Beliefs About the Legitimacy of Parental Authority and Their Own Obligation to Obey: A Longitudinal Investigation

Darling, Nancy; Cumsille, Patricio; Martínez, M. Loreto

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01178.x

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“…Adolescents more engaged in problem behaviors consider parental authority less legitimate and also feel less required to obey parents' rules (Darling et al, 2008). Rule breaking behaviors may also set into motion negative communication patterns in families.…”

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“…Given the apparent importance of legitimacy beliefs for understanding whether or not adolescents facilitate parental monitoring efforts, an expansion of current work (e.g., Darling, Cumsille, & Martínez, 2008;Kuhn & Laird, 2011;Smetana & Asquith, 1994) is needed to understand the origins of these individual differences in adolescents' legitimacy beliefs.…”

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Mother–adolescent monitoring dynamics and the legitimacy of parental authority

Keijsers

Laird

2014

Journal of Adolescence

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This multi‐informant longitudinal study aimed to understand whether the family dynamics that underlie adolescent voluntary disclosure regarding their leisure time behavior differs when adolescents strongly or weakly endorse the legitimacy of parental authority. Longitudinal linkages between parental monitoring behaviors and adolescents' secrecy and disclosure were tested among youths with strong and weak legitimacy beliefs. The sample included 197 adolescents (51% female, M age 12 years) and their mothers. Mothers reported on several of their own monitoring efforts (i.e., solicitation, active involvement, observing and listening, and obtaining information from spouses, siblings, and others). Adolescents reported their disclosure, secrecy, and legitimacy beliefs. Only among youths reporting strong legitimacy beliefs, more mother engagement and supervision (indexed by mother‐reported active involvement and observing and listening) predicted more adolescent disclosure and less secrecy over time, and more mother solicitation predicted less secrecy.

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Mother–adolescent monitoring dynamics and the legitimacy of parental authority

Keijsers

Laird

2014

Journal of Adolescence

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“…Tais aspectos são essenciais para o desenvolvimento dos jovens (Jiménez -Barbero, Ruiz-Hernández, Llor-Esteban, & Waschgler, 2014) e sinalizam a importância da relação entre pais e filhos para todas as áreas do desenvolvimento, incluindo a autonomia. Há evidências de que um estilo afetuoso e de proximidade entre pais e filhos pode influenciar tanto nos níveis de autonomia dos jovens (Barbosa & Wagner, 2015) quanto na legitimidade da autoridade parental (Darling et al, 2008;Rote, Smetana, Campione-Barr, Villalobos, & Tasopoulos-Chan, 2012). Adolescentes que percebem seus pais como responsivos, exigentes (Trinkner, Cohn, Rebellon, & Gundy, 2012), afetuosos e com monitoramento (Darling et al, 2008), tais como os jovens desta amostra, tendem a respeitar mais às regras em comparação a jovens que percebem seus pais como muito exigentes e pouco afetivos.…”

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“…Há evidências de que um estilo afetuoso e de proximidade entre pais e filhos pode influenciar tanto nos níveis de autonomia dos jovens (Barbosa & Wagner, 2015) quanto na legitimidade da autoridade parental (Darling et al, 2008;Rote, Smetana, Campione-Barr, Villalobos, & Tasopoulos-Chan, 2012). Adolescentes que percebem seus pais como responsivos, exigentes (Trinkner, Cohn, Rebellon, & Gundy, 2012), afetuosos e com monitoramento (Darling et al, 2008), tais como os jovens desta amostra, tendem a respeitar mais às regras em comparação a jovens que percebem seus pais como muito exigentes e pouco afetivos. Dessa forma, o desenvolvimento da autonomia pode ser considerado uma variável que resulta do relacionamento entre pais e filhos, em que deve haver equilíbrio entre regras e afeto.…”

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Autonomia, Responsividade/Exigência e Legitimidade da Autoridade Parental: Perspectiva de Pais e Adolescentes

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ResumoEste estudo comparou a avaliação de pais e filhos sobre as variáveis Autonomia Adolescente, Responsividade e Exigência dos Pais e Legitimidade da Autoridade Parental. Participaram 36 pais ou responsáveis e seus filhos adolescentes. Utilizou-se um questionário sociodemográfico, a Escala de Estilos Parentais, o Questionário de Autonomia e o Questionário de Legitimidade da Autoridade Parental. Realizaram-se análises descritivas e inferenciais. Os resultados denotaram níveis médios de autonomia adolescente e altos de Responsividade e Exigência Parental. Foram encontradas, porém, diferenças nas percepções de pais e filhos quanto ao nível de autonomia dos adolescentes, à responsividade e exigência dos pais e à atribuição de legitimidade da autoridade parental. Os resultados ilustram a dinâmica do desenvolvimento da autonomia em uma amostra de participantes de nível socioeconômico médio a alto e com bons níveis de relacionamento familiar. Evidencia-se a importância do equilíbrio entre afetividade e exigência na dinâmica familiar para o desenvolvimento da autonomia adolescente. Palavras-chave: autonomia, adolescentes, estilo parental, relações familiares Autonomy, responsiveness/demandingness and legitimacy of parental authority to adolescents and their parents AbstractThis study compared the assessment of parents and their children on the variables adolescent autonomy, parental responsiveness and demandingness and the legitimacy of parental authority. The participants were 36 parents and their teens. A sociodemographic questionnaire, the Autonomy Questionnaire, the Parenting Styles Scale, and the Legitimacy of Parental Authority Questionnaire were used. Descriptive and inferential analyses were made. Results showed average levels of adolescent autonomy and high levels of parental responsiveness and demandingness. Differences were found in the perceptions of parents and children about the level of adolescent's autonomy, parental responsiveness and demandingness and assignment of legitimacy of parental authority. Results illustrate the dynamics of the autonomy development in a sample of middle to high socioeconomic status, with good levels of family relation. The importance of balance between affection and demandingness in family dynamics is highlighted for the development of adolescent autonomy.

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“…This quest for autonomy involves becoming gradually less reliant on parents for practical assistance and emotional support (Rueger, Malecki, & Demaray, 2008;Steinberg, 2001). It also involves the establishment of an independent set of values, opinions and beliefs, and as this occurs, adolescents may become more questioning of parental rules and decisions (Darling et al, 2008). Parents can find allowing adolescents to behave autonomously very difficult and many disputes in the teen years stem from an adolescent's desire to become more autonomous, and an authority figure's struggle to accept this (Jensen & DostGozkan, 2015).…”

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Understanding Adolescents

Bell¹

2016

Perspectives on HCI Research With Teenagers

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Adolescent development is complex; involving the interaction between fundamental biological and cognitive developmental processes, and the unique environment inhabited by the adolescent. This chapter draws on contemporary research from the social and behavioural sciences to outline the key features of the biological and cognitive changes occurring during adolescence, which serve to differentiate adolescents from both children and adults. The contextual factors that influence the developmental trajectory of adolescents will be discussed, with particular emphasis on the role of media and technology, which is becoming an increasingly prominent developmental context and is of particular interest to the readers of this book. The chapter also discusses prominent themes in adolescent development that are product of this interaction between developmental processes and the environment, including identity, sexuality, intimacy, autonomy and achievement. It ends with a discussion of how this knowledge may be utilised by researchers working in the field of Teen-CI to inform their approach to working with adolescents.

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Individual Differences in Adolescents’ Beliefs About the Legitimacy of Parental Authority and Their Own Obligation to Obey: A Longitudinal Investigation

Cited by 140 publications

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Mother–adolescent monitoring dynamics and the legitimacy of parental authority

Mother–adolescent monitoring dynamics and the legitimacy of parental authority

Autonomia, Responsividade/Exigência e Legitimidade da Autoridade Parental: Perspectiva de Pais e Adolescentes

Understanding Adolescents

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