This book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents’
social development in the context of the family.
* Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the
author’s research over the past 25 years
* Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than
700 families
* Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority
and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with
adolescents in Hong Kong and China
* Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during
adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development
* Considers both popular sources such as movies and public
surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology,
history, sociology, social psychology, and developmental
psychology
* Explores how different strands of development, including
autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention,
become integrated and coordinated in adolescence
Cuprins
Preface vi
1 Introduction: Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families 1
2 Studying Adolescent-Parent Relationships from the Lens of Developmental Psychology 13
3 Conflicts and Their Vicissitudes 31
4 Parents’ Voices: Conflicts and Social Conventions 43
5 Adolescents’ Voices: Autonomy and the Personal Domain 66
6 Autonomy, Conflict, Connectedness, and Culture 96
7 Adolescent Relationships and Development within and between Cultures 120
8 Adolescent-Parent Relationships in African American Families 139
9 Beliefs about Parental Authority 172
10 Parenting Styles and Practices 193
11 Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent-Parent Relationships 216
12 Coordinations and Change in Social Development 249
13 Life beyond Adolescence: Transitions to Adulthood 271
References 279
Author Index 306
Subject Index 313
Despre autor
Judith G. Smetana is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Developmental Psychology at the University of Rochester, where she also held the Frederika Warner Chair in Human Development from 1995 to 1998. She has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and she is the author of more than 150 articles and chapters on the development of children’s moral and social reasoning and on adolescent-parent relationships in different ethnic and cultural contexts.
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