Parental Relationships, Autonomy, and Identity Processes of High School Students

Autor/inn/en	Mullis, Ronald L.; Graf, Shruti Chatterjee; Mullis, Ann K.
Titel	Parental Relationships, Autonomy, and Identity Processes of High School Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Genetic Psychology, 170 (2009) 4, S.326-338 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1325
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Measures (Individuals); High School Students; Parent Child Relationship; Identification (Psychology); Self Concept; Caring; Mothers; Fathers; Scores; Personal Autonomy; Emotional Development; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Messdaten; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Selbstkonzept; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Mother; Mutter; Individuelle Autonomie; Gefühlsbildung; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	To examine the interrelations among parental relationships, emotional autonomy, and identity statuses, the authors asked 234 (105 male, 129 female) high school students to complete the Parental Bonding Scale (G. Parker, H. Tupling, & L. B. Brown, 1979), Emotional Autonomy Scale (L. D. Steinberg & S. B. Silverberg, 1986), and Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Scale-II (L. D. Bennion & G. R. Adams, 1986). There continues to be controversy about whether adolescents' identity formation is related to their emotional separation from their parents. According to Eriksonian and neo-Eriksonian theory (J. E. Marcia, 1980, 1984), adolescents who are successful in resolving their identity issues are better able to emotionally individuate from their parents. That is, adolescents have fewer conflicts with parents as they become more independent of them. Results of the present study indicate that adolescent perceptions of mother's caring behavior, but not father's caring behavior, predicted higher foreclosure identity status scores among adolescents. In addition, 2 dimensions of emotional autonomy (i.e., perceiving parents as people and parental deidealization) best predicted the adolescent identity statuses of moratorium and foreclosure. Results also indicate that future research may need to establish a better theoretical conceptualization of the constructs of interest in this study and better measures of emotional autonomy among adolescents. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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