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Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent-Parent Relationships
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Smetana, Judith G.; Metzger, Aaron; Gettman, Denise C.; Campione-Barr, Nicole – Child Development, 2006
Beliefs about parents' legitimate authority and adolescents' obligations to disclose to parents and actual disclosure and secrecy in different domains were examined in 276 ethnically diverse, lower middle-class 9th and 12th graders (Ms= 14.62 and 17.40 years) and their parents (n=249). Adolescents were seen as more obligated to disclose prudential…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Grade 9
Domain-Specific Antecedents of Parental Psychological Control and Monitoring: The Role of Parenting Beliefs and Practices.
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Smetana, Judith G.; Daddis, Christopher – Child Development, 2002
Examined effects of domain-differentiated beliefs about legitimate parental authority, and ratings of restrictive parental control and adolescent- and mother- reported psychological and behavioral control. Found that domain-specific parenting beliefs and ratings predicted adolescent-reported maternal psychological control and parental monitoring.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Beliefs
Parenting Styles and Conceptions of Parental Authority during Adolescence.
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Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1995
Reports of parenting styles were assessed in 100 mostly white, middle-class, 6th, 8th, and 10th graders and their parents. Adolescents viewed their parents as more permissive and more authoritarian than parents viewed themselves, whereas parents viewed themselves as more authoritative than did adolescents. Differences were primarily over the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Middle Class Parents, Middle Class Students
Middle-Class African American Adolescents' and Parents' Conceptions of Parental Authority and Parenting Practices: A Longitudinal Investigation.
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Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 2000
Examined longitudinally conceptions of parental authority and ratings of parental rules and decision-making among middle- class African American adolescents and their parents. Found that nearly all subjects affirmed parents' legitimate authority to regulate and children's obligation to comply regarding oral, conventional, prudential, friendship,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Blacks
Adolescent-Parent Conflict among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong.
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Yau, Jenny; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed 120 early, mid, and late adolescents of lower-class Chinese families to examine adolescent-parent conflict. Found that conflicts were primarily with mothers, of moderate frequency and severity, and occurred over everyday issues. Adolescents wanted greater autonomy in decision making than their parents granted them, but parents' views…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Adolescents' and Parents' Conceptions of Parental Authority and Personal Autonomy.
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Smetana, Judith G.; Asquith, Pamela – Child Development, 1994
Conceptions of parental authority and ratings of adolescent-parent conflict were assessed in 6th-, 8th-, and 10th-graders and their parents. Participants judged the legitimacy of parental authority and rated the frequency and intensity of conflict regarding 24 hypothetical issues. Adolescents and parents agreed that parents should retain authority…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Conflict