The psychological
adjustment of adolescent mothers was compared with that of adolescent nonmothers, single adult mothers and married adult mothers.
Not exact matches
Adolescents» subtypes
of attachment security with fathers and
mothers and self - perceptions
of socioemotional
adjustment.
Mothers» awareness
of their early
adolescents» stressors: Relation between awareness and
adolescent adjustment.
Natural mentor relationships among Latina
adolescent mothers: Psychological
adjustment, moderating processes, and the role
of early parental acceptance.
However, US research on older age groups found that length
of residence, as well as
adolescents» positive socio - emotional
adjustment and relationship with the
mother, all appeared to make it easier to relate to a resident non-biological father figure (King, Amato & Lindstrom, 2015; King, Thorsen & Amato, 2014).
The perceived levels
of behavior
of mothers and fathers did not interact with one another in predicting
adolescent adjustment.
Second, a link between interpersonal enjoyment
of collaboration and
adjustment was found in our study
of adolescents with type 1 diabetes collaborating with their
mothers (Berg, Schindler, & Maharajh, 2008).
It is important to note that many
of the demographic factors were confounded in our sample (e.g., 64 %
of the non-White
mothers in our sample were single), and it is therefore difficult to tease out the effects
of race / ethnicity and marital status on parenting behaviors and
adolescent adjustment.
The relational basis
of adolescent adjustment: trajectories
of mother — child interactive behaviors from infancy to adolescence shape
adolescents» adaptation
Bivariate correlations between observed parenting and
adolescent adjustment (Table III) revealed that
mothers» higher levels
of observed collaborative parenting were related to significantly lower levels
of externalizing problems in
adolescents (r = −.24, p =.021) and somewhat fewer problems with quality
of life (r = −.19, p =.074).