What Parents Don't Know and How It May Affect Their Children: Qualifying the Disclosure-Adjustment Link

Autor/inn/en	Frijns, Tom; Keijsers, Loes; Branje, Susan; Meeus, Wim
Titel	What Parents Don't Know and How It May Affect Their Children: Qualifying the Disclosure-Adjustment Link
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 33 (2010) 2, S.261-270 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2009.05.010
Schlagwörter	Delinquency; Prediction; Parent Child Relationship; Adolescents; Adjustment (to Environment); Depression (Psychology); Disclosure; Surveys; Factor Analysis; Behavior Problems; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kriminalität; Vorhersage; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Faktorenanalyse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Recent research has identified adolescent disclosure to parents as a powerful predictor of adolescent adjustment. We propose, however, that the common operationalization of adolescent disclosure incorporates the two separate constructs of disclosure and secrecy, and predicted that the disclosure-adjustment link can largely be explained by the unique contribution of secrecy from parents. A four-wave survey study among 309 adolescents tested these predictions. Factor analyses confirmed that disclosure and secrecy should be distinguished as two separate constructs. Moreover, in cross-lagged path analyses, only secrecy was a longitudinal predictor of adolescent internalizing (i.e., depression) and externalizing (i.e., delinquency) problems, disclosure was not. Secrecy consistently contributed to the longitudinal prediction of delinquency from early to middle adolescence, whereas it contributed to the prediction of depression only in early adolescence. Findings thus attest the importance of distinguishing between disclosure and secrecy and suggest that the disclosure-adjustment link may actually reflect a secrecy-maladjustment link. (Contains 2 figures and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10