The Role of the Family’s Emotional Climate in the Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning

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Does the emotional climate at home change what a parent's questions mean to a teenager?

Repeated adolescent reports distinguish different forms of communication and place them within the wider family relationship.

Who was studied?

Swedish adolescents reporting on communication, emotional climate and adjustment

Age / stage: Early adolescence

Read with three questions

1. Does the emotional climate at home change what a parent's questions mean to a teenager?
2. What was measured at each observation, and what other influences might account for the link?
3. Which features of the study population (swedish adolescents reporting on communication, emotional climate and adjustment) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?

Keep the limits in view

Two waves of adolescent self-report capture perceived Swedish family communication. They cannot fully separate changes in parental behavior from changes in the adolescent's perception.