Adolescents, Families, and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds [Paperback]

• Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the authors research over the past 25 years
• Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than 700 families
• Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with adolescents in Hong Kong and China
• Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development
• Considers both popular sources such as movies and public surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, and developmental psychology
• Explores how different strands of development, including autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention, become integrated and coordinated in adolescence

Preface vi

1 Introduction: Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families 1

2 Studying AdolescentParent Relationships from the Lens of Developmental Psychology 13

3 Conflicts and Their Vicissitudes 31

4 Parents Voices: Conflicts and Social Conventions 43

5 Adolescents Voices: Autonomy and the Personal Domain 66

6 Autonomy, Conflict, Connectedness, and Culture 96

7 Adolescent Relationships and Development within and between Cultures 120

8 AdolescentParent Relationships in African American Families 139

9 Beliefs about Parental Authority 172

10 Parenting Styles and Practices 193

11 Disclosure and Secrecy in AdolescentParent Relationships 216

12 Coordinations and Change in Social Devel³l