Parents and Adolescents in Conflict: All Families Some of the Time and Some Families Most of the Time

Montemayor, Raymond

doi:10.1177/027243168331007

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“…Adolescents test the boundaries of their newly developed self -regulatory skills in numerous ways, including a tendency to express themselves more directly to parents: studies suggest that older teens are more likely than younger ones to defend and elaborate on their positions while discussing disagreements with their parents (Kreppner & Ulrich, 1998 ;Graber & Brooks -Gunn, 1999 ;Pinquart & Silbereisen, 2002 ). Adolescents ' increased willingness to express disagreement and challenge their parents is implicit in the increased rate and intensity of parent -child conflict that occurs during early and middle adolescence (Bosma et al, 1996 ;Larson et al, 1998 ;Montemayor, 1983 ;1986 ). This increased conflict has often been attributed to adolescents ' more autonomous thinking; in addition to increases in their willingness to express their opinions, they also become more likely to define areas of conflict as subject to their own personal choice versus parental control (Smetana, Braeges, & Yau, 1991 ).…”

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Attachment and Autonomy During Adolescence

McElhaney

Allen

Stephenson

et al. 2009

Handbook of Adolescent Psychology

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Section: Interfamilial Change: Behavioral Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Attachment and Autonomy During Adolescence

McElhaney

Allen

Stephenson

et al. 2009

Handbook of Adolescent Psychology

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172

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“…Max, Rice, Finkelstein, Bardwell, and Leadbetter (2004) estimated the cost of intimate partner violence to be 8.3 billion dollars in 1995, which corresponds to about 1 percent of GDP in that year. In addition to extreme forms of family frictions such as violent conflict and suicide (Stevenson and Wolfers (2006)), conflict with adolescents is prevalent in most families (Montemayor (1983)), and even fighting over the remote control has been documented by researchers (Walker (1996)), just to name a few examples of such costs. Based on a 40-hour work week, our model would imply that people spend about 30 minutes a day on household maintenance costs.…”

Section: Falling Cost Of Roommates and Rising Child Expendituresmentioning

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Families as roommates: Changes in U.S. household size from 1850 to 2000

Salcedo

Schoellman

Tertilt

2012

Quantitative Economics

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Living arrangements have changed enormously over the last two centuries. While the average American today lives in a household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intrafamily relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling expenditure share on household public goods, which endogenously makes household formation less beneficial and privacy more attractive. To assess the magnitude of this mechanism, we first calibrate the model to match the relationship between household size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back to 1850 by changing income. We find that our proposed mechanism can account for 37 percent of the decline in the number of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children.

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“…Increasing desire for autonomy and differences in opinions of parents and adolescents about the timing of autonomy are thought to give rise to conflicts in parent-adolescent relationships (Montemayor 1983;Smetana 1989). Conflicts are thought to help adolescents to become more autonomous (Grotevant and Cooper 1986), and stimulate realignment of parent-adolescent relationships toward more age-appropriate expectations as parents relinquish their power (Collins et al 1997).…”

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Developmental Changes in Adolescents’ Perceptions of Relationships with Their Parents

Goede

Branje

Meeus

2008

J Youth Adolescence

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This 4-wave longitudinal study examines developmental changes in adolescents' perceptions of parent-adolescent relationships by assessing parental support, conflict with parents, and parental power. A total of 951 early adolescents (50.4% boys) and 390 middle adolescents (43.3% boys) participated. Univariate and multivariate growth curve analyses showed that support declined from early to middle adolescence for boys and girls and increased from middle to late adolescence for girls, while stabilizing for boys. Conflict was found to temporarily increase during middle adolescence. Parental power (relative power and dominance of parents) decreased from early to late adolescence. Results indicated that: (1) parent-adolescent relationships become more egalitarian during adolescence, (2) parents perceived by adolescents as powerful are viewed as supportive, especially in early adolescence, and (3) perceived conflict with parents is related to but not an impetus for changes in parent-adolescent relationships towards more equality.

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Parents and Adolescents in Conflict: All Families Some of the Time and Some Families Most of the Time

Cited by 417 publications

References 48 publications

Attachment and Autonomy During Adolescence

Attachment and Autonomy During Adolescence

Families as roommates: Changes in U.S. household size from 1850 to 2000

Developmental Changes in Adolescents’ Perceptions of Relationships with Their Parents

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