White F A
Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Australia.
J Soc Psychol. 2000 Feb;140(1):75-91. doi: 10.1080/00224540009600447.
The author investigated the relationship between salient family processes and adolescent moral thought among a sample of 271 adolescents and their parents. Family-process variables measured were adaptability, cohesion, and parent-adolescent communication; adolescent moral thought was measured by the influence the adolescent participants attributed to sources of moral authority. Perceptions of high family cohesion were associated with the greatest influence attributed to the family as a source of moral authority. Perceptions of high family adaptability were associated with greater influence attributed to all sources of moral authority. Parent-adolescent dyads who perceived high positive communication showed strong parent-adolescent agreement on the levels of influence attributed to all sources of moral authority. The findings (a) support the view that a strong relationship exists between family-socialization processes and the content of adolescent moral thought and (b) redress an empirical imbalance in research literature.
作者对271名青少年及其父母进行了抽样调查，研究了显著的家庭过程与青少年道德思想之间的关系。所测量的家庭过程变量包括适应性、凝聚力以及亲子沟通；青少年道德思想则通过青少年参与者赋予道德权威来源的影响力来衡量。对高家庭凝聚力的认知与将家庭视为道德权威来源的最大影响力相关。对高家庭适应性的认知与赋予所有道德权威来源的更大影响力相关。认为有高度积极沟通的亲子二元组在赋予所有道德权威来源的影响力水平上表现出强烈的亲子一致性。研究结果（a）支持了家庭社会化过程与青少年道德思想内容之间存在紧密关系的观点，（b）纠正了研究文献中的实证失衡问题。
