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Open up or close down: how do parental reactions affect youth information management?
- Source :
- Journal of adolescence. 33(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to test a process model of youths' information management. Using three waves of longitudinal data collected from 982 youths, we modeled parents' positive and negative reactions to disclosure predicting youths' feelings about their parents, in turn predicting youths' disclosure and secrecy about their daily activities. Gender, age, and psychopathic personality traits were examined as potential moderators. The results showed that parents' negative reactions were associated with increases in youths' feeling controlled and decreases in youths' feeling connected to their parents, which in turn, predicted increased secrecy and decreased disclosure. In contrast, parents' positive reactions predicted increased feeling connected to parents, which in turn predicted increased disclosure. Moreover, these predictive pathways were modified by youths' psychopathic personality traits. Our results are consistent with a transactional model suggesting that how parents react to youths' disclosure affects youths' future decisions to provide their parents with information about their daily activities. The results point to the importance of considering youths' feelings and characteristics.
- Subjects :
- Male
Activities of daily living
Deception
Social Psychology
Adolescent
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Models, Psychological
Affect (psychology)
Truth Disclosure
Developmental psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Parenting styles
Personality
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Longitudinal Studies
Big Five personality traits
Parent-Child Relations
Internal-External Control
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Sweden
adolescence
parenting
information management
secrecy
disclosure
psychopathic traits
personality
Social relation
Psychiatry and Mental health
Logistic Models
Feeling
Adolescent Behavior
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Self-disclosure
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959254
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of adolescence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....efea642dbdfa73c7428b15c8ed927be8