Parental Solicitation and Adolescents’ Information Management: The Moderating Role of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting

Baudat, Sophie; Petegem, Stijn Van; Antonietti, Jean‐Philippe; Zimmermann, Grégoire

doi:10.1007/s10826-019-01687-z

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“…As shown in previous work (Baudat et al, 2020), adolescents keeping the highest levels of secrets from their parents at the beginning of middle adolescence also perceived more controlling parenting. Moreover, adolescents who reported a greater increase in secrecy experienced a greater increase in controlling parenting.…”

Section: Associations Between Changes In Secrecy and Controlling Paresupporting

confidence: 72%

“…In this context, keeping secrets may be particularly helpful for adolescents as a means of expressing resistance to their parents (Parkin & Kuczynski, 2012). In line with these propositions, controlling parenting behaviors have been cross-sectionally associated with lower levels of disclosure (through lower levels of need satisfaction ;Tokić Milaković et al, 2017) and greater secrecy among middle adolescents (Baudat et al, 2020). Similarly, it has been longitudinally shown that when parents reacted in a controlling manner to their child's disclosure (e.g., by being cold and rejecting the child's feelings), adolescents felt more controlled, which, in turn, triggered them to keep more secrets (Tilton-Weaver et al, 2010).…”

Section: Secrecy Within the Parent-child Relationship: The Case Of Comentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Indeed, adolescents are likely to share information with confidants who are less likely to be intrusive and pressuring with them (e.g., a controlling parenting style; Baudat et al, 2020). To better understand the development of secrecy, it is therefore important to consider the general context within which adolescents communicate with their parents.…”

Section: Adolescents' Secrecy and Drinking Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second objective was to examine how developmental changes in secrecy, alcohol use and perceptions of controlling parenting are associated with each other across middle adolescence. Based on past research documenting positive associations between secrecy and alcohol use (McCann et al, 2016) as well as between secrecy and controlling parenting (Baudat et al, 2020), several pathways were hypothesized. First, simultaneous changes across middle adolescence were expected; that is, adolescents who would experience a greater increase in secrecy would also report a stronger increase in alcohol use and in controlling parenting, respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Developmental Changes in Secrecy During Middle Adolescence: Links with Alcohol Use and Perceived Controlling Parenting

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Section: Associations Between Changes In Secrecy and Controlling Paresupporting

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confidence: 81%

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Antonietti

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“…Parents' asking questions about adolescents' activities as well as about their relationships with friends, could be perceived by adolescents as an attempt to be involved in adolescents' lives. When perceived as such, parental solicitation elicits disclosure in adolescents (Baudat et al 2020), which in turn gives parents opportunities to provide support and ease adolescent emotional distress. Indeed, parental involvement is linked to improved self-esteem and emotional self-regulation skills, which in turn are protective against the development of depressive symptoms (Flouri and Buchanan 2003).…”

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The Role of the Family’s Emotional Climate in the Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning

Kapetanovic

Skoog

2020

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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The current study was designed to extend the parenting literature by testing the moderating role of the family’s emotional climate, operationalized with parent-adolescent emotional closeness and adolescent feelings of being overly controlled by parents on the longitudinal associations between parent-driven communication efforts (i.e. parental behavioral control and solicitation of information from their adolescent), adolescent-driven communication efforts (i.e. adolescent disclosure and secrecy) and adolescent psychosocial functioning (i.e. emotional problems, conduct problems, delinquency, and wellbeing). We conducted a series of cross-lagged models controlling for adolescent gender and ethnicity using a two-wave Swedish longitudinal set of self-report data (N = 1515, 51% girls, M age = 13.0 and 14.3 years at T1 and T2, respectively). Multi-group analyses revealed that the negative links between T1 parental control and T2 adolescent delinquency, T1 parental solicitation and T2 adolescent conduct problems and delinquency, and T1 emotional problems and T2 adolescent disclosure were moderated by the family’s emotional climate. When the family’s emotional climate was positive, the parenting strategies had a more positive effect on adolescent psychosocial functioning, and adolescents with emotional problems communicated more openly with their parents. These findings suggest that the relational context in the family is an important protective factor and add specificity to the previously established role of parent-adolescent communication in adolescent psychosocial development. In terms of preventive interventions, strategies to enhance the family’s emotional climate should be considered prior to teaching specific parenting strategies.

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Voluntariness, timing, and consistency in adolescent routine disclosure and lying to parents

Smetana,

Li,

Mncwabe

2023

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionWhether adolescents' routine disclosure to parents is voluntary is assumed but rarely assessed. Researchers also have not examined whether disclosure and lying are premeditated, occurring before rather than after disclosure or lying, and whether adolescents use a single strategy consistently rather than applying multiple strategies when deciding whether to disclose or lie about their activities. This study investigated these significant gaps in the literature and tested whether voluntariness (for disclosure), timing, consistency, and parental psychological control are associated with lessons learned from disclosure and lying.MethodsNarrative interviews were conducted in 2014–2015 with 131 primarily middle‐class, mostly White US early and middle adolescents and college students (M's = 12.74, 15.81, 20.41 years). Narrated disclosure and lying interviews were reliably coded for voluntariness, timing, consistency, and lessons learned. Parental psychological control was assessed using an online survey.ResultsDisclosure was primarily strategic or voluntary and less often involuntary. Lying occurred more often before the narrated event, whereas disclosure occurred more often after. Youth typically reported using other strategies besides the elicited one. Disclosing after was associated with lessons learned. Voluntary disclosure was associated with psychological growth, and psychological control was associated with negative self‐lessons.ConclusionsDisclosure and lying are complex and nuanced, varying in their timing, consistency, and voluntariness. These features contribute to adolescents' meaning‐make from disclosure and lying. The findings have implications for future research on disclosure and secrecy.

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Parental Solicitation and Adolescents’ Information Management: The Moderating Role of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting

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Cited by 20 publications

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Developmental Changes in Secrecy During Middle Adolescence: Links with Alcohol Use and Perceived Controlling Parenting

Developmental Changes in Secrecy During Middle Adolescence: Links with Alcohol Use and Perceived Controlling Parenting

The Role of the Family’s Emotional Climate in the Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning

Voluntariness, timing, and consistency in adolescent routine disclosure and lying to parents

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