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ERIC Number: EJ401212
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Adolescents' and Parents' Reasoning about Actual Family Conflict.
Smetana, Judith G.
Child Development, v60 n5 p1052-67 Oct 1989
Results suggested that preadolescents and adolescents understand but reject or subordinate parents' conventional interpretations of family conflict, and reinterpret them as issues of personal jurisdiction. Parents understand but reject children's claims to personal jurisdiction, and state the issues in conventional terms. (RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Conflict, Family Problems, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Perspective Taking, Sex Differences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Counterarguments; Justification (Cognition); Reasoning