Maternal Acceptance and Adolescents' Emotional Communication: A Longitudinal Study

Autor/inn/en	Hare, Amanda L.; Marston, Emily G.; Allen, Joseph P.
Titel	Maternal Acceptance and Adolescents' Emotional Communication: A Longitudinal Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40 (2011) 6, S.744-751 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-010-9586-6
Schlagwörter	Self Disclosure (Individuals); Mothers; Early Adolescents; Emotional Development; Parent Child Relationship; Interpersonal Communication; Longitudinal Studies; Child Rearing; Attitudes; Self Concept + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Gefühlsbildung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Kindererziehung; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	With substantive evidence suggesting that adolescents' disclosure is likely a protective factor against problem behaviors, as well as evidence that many adolescents will go to great lengths to "avoid" sharing information with parents, one may conclude that parents' face a formidable task. Previous studies have identified parental acceptance as a concurrent correlate of adolescents' "behavioral" disclosure, but have neglected to investigate potential ways that parents could encourage their adolescents to feel comfortable disclosing "emotional" information. The present study extends the literature by using a longitudinal, multi-method, multi-reporter design to examine whether maternal acceptance is predictive of emotional disclosure "over time" among a racially/socioeconomically diverse sample of 184 adolescents (53% female). Results indicate that adolescents who perceive their mothers as high in acceptance during early adolescence exhibit greater relative increases in both self-reported emotional communication and observed emotional disclosure to their mothers 3 years later. Interestingly, mothers' perceptions of their own acceptance does not provide any additional predictive value. These findings support the notion that adolescents' emotional disclosure is an ongoing process that can be fostered in early adolescence, and emphasize the importance of considering adolescents' perceptions of the relationship to successfully do so. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10