1. Gender differences in keeping secrets from parents in adolescence
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Keijsers, L., Frijns, T., Branje, S.J.T., Finkenauer, C., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Leerstoel Meeus, Dep Educatie & Pedagogiek, Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Leerstoel Meeus, and Dep Educatie & Pedagogiek
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Male ,Longitudinal study ,Adolescent ,Developmental psychology ,secrecy ,Sex Factors ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Secrecy ,Taverne ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,parent-child relationship ,Longitudinal Studies ,Parent-Child Relations ,Life-span and Life-course Studies ,development ,Demography ,Parenting ,Latent growth modeling ,Communication ,Social change ,Follow up studies ,Social environment ,Mean age ,Adolescent Development ,Social relation ,gender differences ,Adolescent Behavior ,adolescence ,Female ,Psychology ,Confidentiality - Abstract
The current longitudinal study examined adolescent gender differences in the developmental changes and relational correlates of secrecy from parents. For 4 successive years, starting in the second year of junior high (mean age at Time 1 = 13.2 years, SD = 0.51), 149 male and 160 female Dutch adolescents reported on secrecy from their parents and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Latent growth curve modeling revealed a linear increase in secrecy, which was significantly faster for boys than for girls. Moreover, cross-lagged panel analyses showed clear concurrent and longitudinal linkages between secrecy from parents and poorer parent-child relationship quality in girls. In boys, much less strong linkages were found between poorer relationships and secrecy from parents.
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- 2010