Gh. Brody et al., FAMILY PROCESSES DURING ADOLESCENCE AS PREDICTORS OF PARENT YOUNG-ADULT ATTITUDE SIMILARITY - A 6-YEAR LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS, Family relations, 43(4), 1994, pp. 369-373
The longitudinal relationship between adolescents' involvement in fami
ly decision making, parental warmth, and marital quality assessed in 1
981 and parent-adolescent attitude dissimilarity assessed in 1987 was
examined. The data came from 592 families that participated in the Nat
ional Survey of Children. To the extent that adolescents were actively
involved in decision making and their relationships with their father
s were warm, parent-adolescent attitudes were more similar 6 years lat
er.