De Los Reyes Andres, Ohannessian Christine McCauley, Laird Robert D
Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Connecticut Children's Medical Center and University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.
J Child Fam Stud. 2016 Mar;25(3):790-797. doi: 10.1007/s10826-015-0275-7. Epub 2015 Aug 23.
Prior work indicates that adolescents perceive the family more negatively than do their parents. These discrepant views comprise some of the most robust observations in psychological science, and are observed on survey reports collected in vastly different cultures worldwide. Yet, whether developmental changes occur with these discrepant views remains unclear. In a sample of 141 adolescents and their mothers, we examined 1-year developmental changes in discrepancies between parents' and adolescents' views of family functioning. We focused on discrepant views about a relatively covert domain of family functioning (i.e., internal views of open communication) and a relatively overt domain of such functioning (i.e., views about observable communication problems). We observed significant developmental changes in discrepant views for open communication, but not for communication problems. These findings have important implications for research examining links between discrepant views of family functioning and whether these discrepancies serve as risk or protective factors for adolescent psychosocial functioning.
先前的研究表明，青少年对家庭的看法比他们的父母更为负面。这些不同的观点构成了心理科学中一些最有力的观察结果，并且在全球不同文化背景下收集的调查报告中都能观察到。然而，这些不同的观点是否会随着发展而变化仍不清楚。在一个由141名青少年及其母亲组成的样本中，我们研究了父母与青少年对家庭功能看法差异的一年期发展变化。我们关注的是家庭功能中一个相对隐蔽的领域（即开放式沟通的内部看法）和一个相对公开的领域（即对可观察到的沟通问题的看法）的不同观点。我们观察到，对于开放式沟通的不同观点有显著的发展变化，但对于沟通问题则没有。这些发现对于研究家庭功能不同观点之间的联系以及这些差异是否作为青少年心理社会功能的风险或保护因素具有重要意义。
