This review used 4 types of longitudinal models (descriptive models, prediction models,
developmental sequence models and longitudinal mediation models) to identify regular …

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 …

This study examined how parent–child communication regarding adolescent unsupervised
activities develops over the course of adolescence. We used questionnaire data from 390 …

This study examined the mediational role of self-esteem in accounting for the empirical link
between perceived social support (parents, friends, and teachers) and school well-being …

Spending leisure time with deviant peers may have strong influences on adolescents'
delinquency. The current 3‐wave multi‐informant study examined how parental control and …

As adolescents grow up, one of the important developmental tasks is to individuate
themselves and to become more autonomous from parents. This requires a realignment of …

We identify the need for a new wave of research on adolescent secrecy in their relationship
with parents that relinquishes the focus on the nomothetic objective of finding general …

Conventional wisdom regards parent–adolescent communication as an oxymoron. As is
often the case with adolescence, however, conventional wisdom can be misleading …

Internalizing and externalizing problems increase during adolescence. However, these
problems may be mitigated by adequate parenting, including effective parent–adolescent …

Although solitude has been portrayed as a potentially constructive domain in adolescence,
time alone has been consistently associated with socio‐emotional maladjustment. To …