Research Centre Adolescent Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Dev Psychol. 2013 Jul;49(7):1286-98. doi: 10.1037/a0029484. Epub 2012 Aug 13.
This 3-year, multi-informant study examined whether youths' perceptions of parental privacy invasion predicted lower parental knowledge over time, as a function of increased adolescent secrecy. Participants were 497 Dutch adolescents (Time 1 M = 13 years, SD = 0.5; 57% boys) and both parents. Higher youth-reported invasion predicted lower father- and mother-reported knowledge 1 year later. A link between privacy invasion and youths' increased secrecy mediated the association between privacy invasion and mothers' lower knowledge. Further, mothers' perceptions of adolescent secrecy mediated the association between adolescent-reported secrecy and mothers' knowledge. No mediation existed for father-report models. The results suggest that privacy invasion is counterproductive to parents' efforts to remain knowledgeable about youths, due to increased adolescent secrecy. We discuss the implications for family communication processes and successful privacy negotiations during adolescence.
本为期 3 年的多信息源研究考察了青少年对父母隐私侵犯的感知是否会随着青少年秘密增多而预测父母知识的长期下降。参与者为 497 名荷兰青少年（T1 时平均年龄为 13 岁，标准差为 0.5；57%为男生）和他们的父母。青少年报告的更高的侵犯预测了 1 年后父母报告的更低的知识。隐私侵犯与青少年秘密增加之间的联系中介了隐私侵犯与母亲较低知识之间的关联。此外，母亲对青少年秘密的感知中介了青少年报告的秘密与母亲知识之间的关联。父亲报告模型中不存在中介。研究结果表明，由于青少年秘密的增加，隐私侵犯会对父母努力了解孩子产生适得其反的效果。我们讨论了这对家庭沟通过程和青少年时期成功的隐私协商的影响。
