Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322-2905, USA.
Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2019 Mar;48(3):459-468. doi: 10.1007/s10964-018-0926-2. Epub 2018 Sep 15.
Discrepancies between parents' and adolescents' reports in parental knowledge of adolescents' daily activities and whereabouts are common and have implications for adolescents' well-being and school success. Grounded in a family systems perspective utilizing reports from parents and adolescents, the goal of this study was to explore the extent to which parent-adolescent warmth and adolescent self-disclosure could account for discrepancies in parental knowledge by testing the indirect effects linking warmth to discrepancies in parental knowledge via adolescent self-disclosure. Participants were early adolescents (N = 172; 53% female) and their parents (90% mothers). Adolescents (57% African American/Black, 18% multiracial, 17% White/Caucasian, 7% Hispanic/Latino and 1% Asian American) attended a Midwestern, Title 1, urban, public middle school. Using structural equation modeling, findings showed that parent-adolescent warmth significantly predicted adolescent self-disclosure, which in turn predicted fewer discrepancies in parental knowledge. The findings from this study help in understanding the factors that contribute to parental knowledge discrepancies and highlight potential targets for family interventions.
父母对青少年日常活动和行踪的了解与青少年的报告之间存在差异是很常见的，这对青少年的幸福和学业成功有影响。本研究基于家庭系统视角，利用父母和青少年的报告，旨在探讨父母与青少年的温暖程度和青少年的自我表露在多大程度上可以解释父母知识差异，通过测试通过青少年自我表露将温暖与父母知识差异联系起来的间接效应。参与者是早期青少年（N=172；53%为女性）及其父母（90%为母亲）。青少年（57%为非裔美国人/黑人，18%为多种族，17%为白种人/高加索人，7%为西班牙裔/拉丁裔，1%为亚裔美国人）就读于中西部，有资格获得资助的，城市公立中学。使用结构方程模型，研究结果表明，父母与青少年的温暖程度显著预测了青少年的自我表露，而青少年的自我表露又预测了父母知识差异的减少。这项研究的结果有助于理解导致父母知识差异的因素，并强调了家庭干预的潜在目标。
