A Process Model of Parenting and Adolescents' Friendship Competence
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Cheryl A. Buehler, Professor (Creator)
- Anne C. Fletcher, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This study examined the prospective relationship between negative parenting behaviors and adolescents' friendship competence in a community sample of 416 two-parent families in the Southeastern USA. Adolescents' externalizing problems and their emotional insecurity with parents were examined as mediators. Parents' psychological control was uniquely associated with adolescents' friendship competence. When both mediators were included in the same model, adolescents' perceptions of emotional insecurity in the parent–adolescent relationship fully mediated the association between parents' psychological control and adolescents' friendship competence. Parental hostility was associated with friendship competence indirectly through adolescents' emotional insecurity. Results contribute to identifying the mechanisms by which parenting affects youths' friendship competence, which is important in informing theory and practice regarding interpersonal relationships in adolescence.
A Process Model of Parenting and Adolescents' Friendship Competence
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Social Development, 21(3), 461-481
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- emotional insecurity, adolescents, externalizing problems, friendship competence, parenting