Not wanting parents' involvement: Sign of autonomy or sign of problems?

Autor: Margaret Kerr, Gretchen Biesecker, Kari Trost, Håkan Stattin
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 4:314-331
ISSN: 1740-5610
1740-5629
DOI: 10.1080/17405620601008980
Popis: The present study investigated whether adolescents' desires to manage their own free time, without parents' involvement, reflected problems or healthy independence. Participants were 1057 adolescents, their parents, and teachers. Initially, wanting parental involvement was related to disclosure, parental knowledge, and positive adjustment across contexts and wanting low parental involvement was related to negative adjustment. With closer examination of adolescents, two groups of adolescents who were similar on desires for low parental involvement but who differed on parental desires for involvement were uncovered. Those adolescents who wanted low parental involvement and whose parents desired involvement were consistently linked to poor adjustment in multicontexts. Those adolescents who wanted low parental involvement and whose parents wanted low parental involvement did not have more problems than their wanting parental involvement peers. Results indicate that not wanting parental involvement should be s...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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