A Naturalistic Study of the Involvement of Children and Adolescents with Their Mothers and Friends
Montemayor, Raymond; Flannery, Daniel, J.; Flannery, Daniel, J., Ohio State University
Журнал:
Journal of Adolescent Research
Дата:
1989
Аннотация:
The purpose of the present study was to examine age differences in the involvement of children and adolescents with theirparents andpeers. Thle aspect of involvement examined in this study was engagement, measured by the expressive behaviors of touching, smiling, talking, and gazing. Subjects were members of 307 dyads (n = 122 mother-child dyads and n = 185 peer dyads) that included a child between the ages of 6 and 18 years. Subjects were unobtrusively observed in shopping malls and an amusementpark. Results revealed that expressive behavior in mother-child dyads decreased between childhood and middle adolescence, but increased in male-female dyads. These age differences were especially evident for interpersonal touching. For mother-child dyads, early adolescence was a transitional period during which an engagement style based on talk first emerged. For opposite-sex peers an engagement style dominated by talk in early adolescence shifted to one that also included much touching, smiling, and gazing in middle adolescence.
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