Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA.
Child Dev. 2013 Mar-Apr;84(2):471-84. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01858.x. Epub 2012 Sep 24.
The present 8-year longitudinal study examined how multiple aspects of family relationships change across the transition from adolescence (Mage = 15 years) to young adulthood (Mage = 22 years) among 821 individuals. Results showed that there was more discontinuity than continuity in family relationships across this transition. Whereas a normative decline was evident in all measured aspects of family relationships during adolescence, this decline persisted for only a few dimensions of family relationships during young adulthood. Other aspects of family relationships stabilized or rebounded. There was little variation in these trajectories as a function of ethnicity or gender, suggesting that these changes in family relationships are generally normative. Results suggest that the transition to adulthood is a period of significant transformation in family relationships.
本 8 年纵向研究考察了在从青春期（平均年龄= 15 岁）到成年早期（平均年龄= 22 岁）的过渡过程中，821 个人的家庭关系的多个方面是如何变化的。结果表明，在这一过渡过程中，家庭关系的不连续性多于连续性。虽然在青春期所有测量的家庭关系方面都出现了明显的下降，但这种下降在成年早期只持续了几个方面。家庭关系的其他方面则趋于稳定或出现反弹。这些轨迹的变化在种族或性别方面差异不大，这表明家庭关系的这些变化通常是正常的。研究结果表明，从青春期到成年期的过渡是家庭关系重大转变的时期。
