Family System Characteristics, Parental Behaviors, and Adolescent Family Life Satisfaction

Henry, Carolyn S.

doi:10.2307/585377

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“…In another study, Edward and Lopez (2006) reported that perceived family support was a significant predictor of life satisfaction. Similarly, Henry (1994) and Chang et al (2003) found that parental support was positively related to satisfaction with life.…”

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Social Support and Optimism as Predictors of Life Satisfaction of College Students

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2011

Int J Adv Counselling

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive value of optimism, perceived support from family and perceived support from faculty in determining life satisfaction of college students in Turkey. One hundred and thirty three students completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985) and provided demographic information about themselves. Independent samples t-test, correlation, and multiple regression analyses were performed for data analysis. Significant relationships were found among the variables, with regression analysis indicating that perceived support from family, perceived faculty support, and optimism were statistically significant predictors of life satisfaction. The implications of these results are discussed and suggestions made for counseling practice and future research.

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Social Support and Optimism as Predictors of Life Satisfaction of College Students

Yalçın

2011

Int J Adv Counselling

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“…To identify opportunities for improvement of parent-teenager communication, it is important to know what parents and teenagers actually communicate about and where difficulties may arise. Surprisingly, despite the considerate amount of research on the importance of good communication habits for the child's development [e.g., 2,9] and specific processes of communication [e.g., 1,3], there is little information on the actual topics of conversation between teenagers and parents. Most research on parent-adolescent communication has used a topic-specific approach, in which data was collected on communication about a particular topic, especially health-related topics, such as sexuality [e.g., 10,11] or tobacco, alcohol, and drug use [e.g.…”

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“…On the one hand, the child strives for independence, while on the other hand, (s)he is still in need of a warm and close relationship with her or his parents [1]. Good and open family communication can contribute much to this relationship, to the child's development, and its self-esteem [2]. However, adolescence is typically a period in which communication problems between parents and children arise, such as arguments [3] or reluctance to discuss certain topics, for example, sexuality [e.g., 4,5].…”

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Facilitating parent-teenager communication through interactive photo cubes

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2011

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Because most teenagers strive for freedom and try to live autonomously, communication with their parents could be improved. It appeared from a literature review and a diary study that parent-teenager communication primarily addresses teenager-oriented everyday activities. However, it also showed teenagers have a substantial interest in getting to know their parents and their parents' past. The study described in this paper seeks to address this opportunity by designing a product for parents and teenagers that facilitates communication about the past of the parents. The resulting design, called Cueb, is a set of interactive digital photo cubes with which parents and teenagers can explore individual and shared experiences and are triggered to exchange stories. An evaluation of a prototype of Cueb with four families showed that the participants felt significantly more triggered and supported to share their experiences and tell stories with Cueb's full functionality (connecting cubes, switching, and locking photographs) than with limited functionality (shaking to display random photographs), similar to more traditional photo media.

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“…Empirical studies suggest that increased family cohesion is related to adolescent reports of increased family life satisfaction (Henry, 1994) and to decreased problem behaviours (Barber and Buehler, 1996;Barrera and Li, 1996). Resnick et al (1997) report that family cohesion has been found to be protective against every health risk behaviour measure except pregnancy, though problem gambling was not included among the list of health risk behaviour measures assessed.…”

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