Journal article
Parental Autonomy Granting During Adolescence: Exploring Gender Differences in Context
Developmental psychology, Vol.37(2), pp.163-173
03/2001
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/115164
PMID: 11269385
Abstract
This study investigated the ways in which 2 indicators of parental
autonomy granting, adolescents' decision-making input and
parental knowledge of adolescents' daily experiences, differed as a
function of contextual factors (i.e., parents'
gender role attitudes or sibling dyad sex composition) and boys' and
girls' personal qualities (i.e., gender,
pubertal status, developmental status, or birth order) in a
sample of 194 families with firstborn (
M
=
15.0 years) and second-born (
M
= 12.5 years) adolescents. Firstborns were granted
more autonomy than second borns, especially in families with firstborn
girls and second-born boys. Girls in families marked by
traditional maternal gender role attitudes were granted fewer autonomy
opportunities. Postmenarcheal second-born girls were granted more
opportunities for autonomy than were premenarcheal second-born
girls, but only in families with less traditional maternal gender role
attitudes.
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Details
- Title
- Parental Autonomy Granting During Adolescence
- Creators
- Matthew F Bumpus - Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State UniversityAnn C Crouter - Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State UniversitySusan M McHale - Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, Vol.37(2), pp.163-173
- Academic Unit
- Human Development, Department of
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Identifiers
- 99900548599701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article