Perceptions of the Parent-Adolescent Relationship: A Longitudinal Investigation.

McGue, Matt; Elkins, Irene J.; Walden, Brent; Iacono, William G.

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.41.6.971

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“…The research participants are recalling events that date from early adolescence on, and parent-child relationships have been shown to become more characterized by conflict and negativity as children progress from childhood into adolescence [10,17], and intense anger is more frequent in parentchild than friend interactions [18]. Late adolescents and young adults, which is the age of our participants, are establishing independence and identity [56], and, for some, this results in contentious interaction with parents [57]. However, note that there is an interaction with gender in terms of negative affective tone in narratives about parents and that negativity is true only for males.…”

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The Language of Memory: Narrating Memories of Parents and Friends

Smorti¹,

Peterson²,

Tani³

2016

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Abstract:The purpose of this study was to compare narrated memories of parents and friends, recounted by both males and females. A total of 177 Italian undergraduates were asked to recall and to write in detail one relevant memory regarding their relationship with either parents or friends during adolescence. Half of the participants wrote a narrative about parents and half about friends. Narratives were examined using both a content and a lexical linguistic method of analysis.The results showed that the language of memories was substantially influenced by the identity of the social partners that were part of the remembered events. In particular the ratio of negative emotion words to all words and the use of 'I' personal pronouns were higher when participants recounted memory narratives about parents rather than friends, and 'We' was used more in narratives about friends. Gender differences were found as well. The authors interpret the results as suggesting that the language of memory is affected by the type of interpersonal relationship that exists between the narrator and the other participants in the remembered events as well as by the gender of the narrator. In other words, memory narratives both reflect and are influenced by the relationships within which an individual is embedded.

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The Language of Memory: Narrating Memories of Parents and Friends

Smorti¹,

Peterson²,

Tani³

2016

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“…In addition, a meta-analysis showed that conflict affect increased from early to middle adolescence and stabilized during late adolescence in between the levels of the two former age periods (Laursen et al 1998). The increase in conflict during early adolescence was longitudinally confirmed (McGue et al 2005). Overall, there seems to be consensus that conflict becomes more intense during early adolescence and less strong from middle to late adolescence.…”

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Developmental Changes in Adolescents’ Perceptions of Relationships with Their Parents

Goede

Branje

Meeus

2008

J Youth Adolescence

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This 4-wave longitudinal study examines developmental changes in adolescents' perceptions of parent-adolescent relationships by assessing parental support, conflict with parents, and parental power. A total of 951 early adolescents (50.4% boys) and 390 middle adolescents (43.3% boys) participated. Univariate and multivariate growth curve analyses showed that support declined from early to middle adolescence for boys and girls and increased from middle to late adolescence for girls, while stabilizing for boys. Conflict was found to temporarily increase during middle adolescence. Parental power (relative power and dominance of parents) decreased from early to late adolescence. Results indicated that: (1) parent-adolescent relationships become more egalitarian during adolescence, (2) parents perceived by adolescents as powerful are viewed as supportive, especially in early adolescence, and (3) perceived conflict with parents is related to but not an impetus for changes in parent-adolescent relationships towards more equality.

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“…Roughly 3 years after that, 415 (82% of the original sample) male participants and 409 (88% of original sample) female participants completed the second follow-up assessment. Those who did not complete the follow-up assessments did not have more mental health problems or parent-child conflict than those who did complete follow-up (McGue, Elkins, Walden, & Iacono, 2005a).…”

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Differential parent-child relationships and adolescent externalizing symptoms: Cross-lagged analyses within a monozygotic twin differences design.

Burt¹,

McGue²,

Iacono³

et al. 2006

Developmental Psychology

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Research has indicated that differential parental treatment is linked to differences in externalizing symptomology (EXT) across siblings, even those siblings who are genetically identical. However, the direction of causation and longitudinal significance of this relationship remains unclear. Thus, in the present study, the authors examined 486 monozygotic twin pairs, assessed at ages 11, 14, and 17 years, within a cross-lagged twin differences design. Results revealed that differential parentchild conflict at age 11 years uniquely contributed to differential sibling EXT 3 years later but only in the most discordant twin pairs. In the full, unselected sample, this relationship was not significant. These results suggest that markedly different parent-child conflict has an environmentally mediated impact on child behavior through mid-adolescence, findings that yield insights into environmental influences on behavior.Keywords parent-child relationships; environmental influences; twin differences; externalizing disorders In 1987, Plomin and Daniels published a seminal and widely cited article in which they noted that the largest environmental contributions to behavioral outcomes occur at the child-specific (i.e., nonshared environment) level rather than at the family-wide (i.e., shared environment) level. They consequently reasoned that, to the extent that parents influence children's outcomes, they likely do so at this child-specific level. To examine this provocative hypothesis, they charged researchers with the following tasks: (a) identify differential experiences among siblings in the same family; (b) relate these differential experiences to differences in sibling behavior; and (c) determine the causal nature of the relationship between differential experiences and differences in sibling behavior.To date, researchers have established both that there are significant sibling differences in parental treatment within families (Feinberg & Hetherington, 2001;Reiss et al., 1995) and that these differences are predictive of child and adolescent outcomes (Anderson, Hetherington, Reiss, & Howe, 1994;Conger & Conger, 1994;Feinberg & Hetherington, 2001;Kowal, Krull, & Kramer, 2004). For example, parent-child conflict appears to contribute to adolescent adjustment largely at the child-specific level (Anderson et al., 1994), results that appear to Correspondence (Conger & Conger, 1994). Specifically, researchers found that the adolescents treated in a more hostile fashion by their parents in early adolescence exhibited relatively more delinquent behavior during mid-adolescence, even when controlling for the association between hostility and delinquent behavior during early adolescence. Although these studies certainly establish a role for differential parental treatment in child outcomes, their interpretative significance is limited by two issues. First, the mechanisms through which differential parental treatment/parent-child relationships affect child outcomes have yet to be firmly resolved. Although they still r...

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Perceptions of the Parent-Adolescent Relationship: A Longitudinal Investigation.

Cited by 260 publications

References 63 publications

The Language of Memory: Narrating Memories of Parents and Friends

The Language of Memory: Narrating Memories of Parents and Friends

Developmental Changes in Adolescents’ Perceptions of Relationships with Their Parents

Differential parent-child relationships and adolescent externalizing symptoms: Cross-lagged analyses within a monozygotic twin differences design.

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