ERIC Number: EJ987108
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Publication Date: 2012-Aug
Pages: 21
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A Process Model of Parenting and Adolescents' Friendship Competence
Cook, Emily C.; Buehler, Cheryl; Fletcher, Anne C.
Social Development, v21 n3 p461-481 Aug 2012
This study examined the prospective relationship between negative parenting behaviors and adolescents' friendship competence in a community sample of 416 two-parent families in the Southeastern USA. Adolescents' externalizing problems and their emotional insecurity with parents were examined as mediators. Parents' psychological control was uniquely associated with adolescents' friendship competence. When both mediators were included in the same model, adolescents' perceptions of emotional insecurity in the parent-adolescent relationship fully mediated the association between parents' psychological control and adolescents' friendship competence. Parental hostility was associated with friendship competence indirectly through adolescents' emotional insecurity. Results contribute to identifying the mechanisms by which parenting affects youths' friendship competence, which is important in informing theory and practice regarding interpersonal relationships in adolescence. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Security (Psychology), Adolescents, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Language: English
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