The findings from this study offer preliminary highlights about
social comparisons adolescents may make that contribute to their willingness to disclose information to their parents and their decisions to engage in particular risk behaviors.
Not exact matches
A
Comparison of the Effectiveness of
Social Skills Training and Anger Management on Adjustment of Unsupervised Girl
Adolescents
Summary: (To include
comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study used an experimental, longitudinal field trial involving random assignment to the Family Check - Up (FCU) to explore the
social ecology of
adolescent antisocial behavior.
Keywords: Sexting,
adolescents, self - control, self - esteem,
social media, cross-national
comparison
[jounal] Rice, K. G. / 1997 / Attachment to parents,
social competence, and emotional well - being: A
comparison of Black and White late
adolescents / Journal of Counseling Psychology 44: 89 ~ 101
Multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) with child (siblings,
comparison) as a within - subjects variable and each measures» (CBCL, Child and
Adolescent Social Support Scale [CASSS], MFQ) subscales as the dependent variables or paired t tests (LQ) were used to contrast siblings and
comparison peers.
Methods Participants were 50
adolescents with IBD and their parents, and parents of 42 healthy
comparison adolescents who completed questionnaires assessing behavioral, emotional,
social, and family functioning.
Adolescents»
social comparisons may be different from those of their parents» creating a divergence in perceptual lenses within the family about parents» monitoring and its impact.
Future work should further explore
adolescents»
social comparisons or definitions of «good parent» monitoring before we can fully understand the nature and magnitude of the associations among these
comparisons and
adolescent behaviors.
This work, more recently grounded in
social comparison theoretical traditions [17], has documented differences between parent and
adolescent expectations about
adolescents» behavioral autonomy [19], the timing of the resolution [20], and
social conventions [21 — 22].
Likewise, elements can be drawn from the
Social Comparison Theory [17], particularly those noting the use of information from others to assess one's own behaviors, to begin to explore potential processes contributing to different parent and
adolescent expectations and reports of monitoring.
Before we answer these and other questions, we must first explore this idea of
adolescent social comparisons with regards to their parents» monitoring.