NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Forbidden Friends as Forbidden Fruit: Parental Supervision of Friendships, Contact with Deviant Peers, and Adolescent Delinquency
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Keijsers, Loes; Branje, Susan; Hawk, Skyler T.; Schwartz, Seth J.; Frijns, Tom; Koot, Hans M.; van Lier, Pol; Meeus, Wim – Child Development, 2012
Spending leisure time with deviant peers may have strong influences on adolescents' delinquency. The current 3-wave multi-informant study examined how parental control and parental prohibition of friendships relate to these undesirable peer influences. To this end, annual questionnaires were administered to 497 Dutch youths (283 boys, mean age =…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Leisure Time, Friendship, Adolescents
Child Development and Personal Social Networks.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Cochran, Moncrieff M.; Brassard, Jane Anthony – Child Development, 1979
Constructs a model for understanding possible relationships between parents' personal social networks and their children's development. (JMB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Models
Adolescents' and Parents' Conceptions of Parental Authority
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1988
Children ranging from fifth to twelfth grade, and their parents, were presented with items pertaining to family transgressions and asked to judge the legitimacy of parental jurisdiction, justify its wrongness or permissibility, and assess its contingency on parental authority. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Agreement between Generations: A Two-Process Approach.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Cashmore, Judith A.; Goodnow, Jacqueline J. – Child Development, 1985
Interviews 100 first borns (12-14 years) and their parents, where both were Australian-born and where parents were Italian-born and children Australian-born, to separate family transmission effects from generational similarities in culture. Proposes that studies across generations should distinguish between actual and perceived agreement and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Family Influence
Parents' Roles in Shaping Early Adolescents' Occupational Aspirations.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Jodl, Kathleen M.; Michael, Alice; Malanchuk, Oksana; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Sameroff, Arnold – Child Development, 2001
Examined relations among parenting dimensions and adolescents' occupational aspirations related to academics and sports. Found that parents' values predicted youths' values directly in the academic domain. Fathers' behaviors mediated the relation between parents' and youths' sports values. Identification was directly related to adolescents'…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Aspiration, Athletics