Mother-Daughter relationships
The model below looks like a useful way to start thinking about how parent and kids interact. the biggest limitation is that it doesn't include the macroworld of cultural and social norms that influence parental goals and styles; this is something you might add if you were using this model. It's also focused more on parenting styles than the relationships you were looking at, but I think that it would be a good way to perceive what's underlying the relationships, from a parental viewpoint...
The other way to do this topics (I think) would be to look at something specific (eg how they negotiate conflict) and relate this to stages of child (female?) development.
The other way to do this topics (I think) would be to look at something specific (eg how they negotiate conflict) and relate this to stages of child (female?) development.
[I've put this up for you before getting an email back from the publisher, so be aware it might disappear if they say I can't use it!]
It would be interesting to know if mathering and fathering were actually different processes - some studeies suggest that this is not the case. The literature survey Mother–Son, Mother–Daughter, Father–Son, and Father–Daughter: Are They Distinct Relationships? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273229796904311 suggests that "When dyadic distinctness was found it often was for relationship measures of closeness/cohesion and affective reactions".
- Here's a government study on parent-child relationships form 2018 - Among other things, it may give you ideas for qeustions in your primary research
- Like Mother, Like daughter describes a longitudinal study which found that parent-child relationships are passed on to the next generation. [What might be the implications of this for government interventions such as the Stolen Generation?!] You can read more about the study at the Australian Temperament Project.
- The many faces of adolescent autonomy: Parent-adolescent conflict, behavioral decision-making, and emotional distancing loks at the process of individuation and how it affects adolescent/parent relationships
- For a cross cultural comparison, try The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Parenting Style: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Australian and Vietnamese Australian Adolescents which looks st the influence of parenting styles on Vietnamese-Australian adolescents' self esteem.
- Children's sociable and aggressive behavior with peers: A comparison of the US and Australian, and contributions of temperament and parenting styles. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01650250244000038
Conflict
- Adolescents’ and Parents’ Reasoning about Actual Family Conflict is really interesting because it takes parent and child viewpoints on the same conflicts. It picked up a specific trend toward increased female conflict during adolescence (cp boy and cp pre and post adolescence). You may wish to find out more about the psychology of this effect.
- Reconsidering Changes in Parent-Child Conflict across Adolescence: A Meta-Analysis may have some intersting trends about how conflict chasnges as people move through adolescence.
- Uncovering the Root Cause of Mother Daughter conflict challenges common myths about hormones and personality clashes to examine some of the social causes of mother-daughter conflicts.
- Influence of Parent—Adolescent Conflict Frequency on Adolescent Family Satisfaction and Self-Satisfaction in China: Conflict Coping Tactics as Moderators https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2466/21.10.PR0.117c28z7 gives a cross cultural perspective on different ways of managing parent-child conflict
Studies of specific impacts
- The Relationship between Parenting Types and Older Adolescents' Personality, Academic Achievement, Adjustment, and Substance Use found a correlation between parental depression and family conflict with youth depression. A similar American study found that students from Nondirective homes had significantly higher SAT scores than students from Authoritarian-Directive and Democratic homes. Students from Unengaged homes had the lowest scores on "Agreeableness" and "Openness to Experience".
- An examination of the relationship between attachment style and body image in adolescent girls: A focus on the mother-daughter relationship. You'll need to log on through your state or local library to access the article.
- Review of the relationship among parenting practices, parenting styles and adolescent school achievement noticed that authoritative parenting style tend to get students better academic results. This is repeated in Relationships between parenting styles and risk behaviors in adolescent health: An integrative literature review, which also states that authoritative parenting styles tend to result in adolescents who engage in less risk behaviours (eg alcohol drugs and sexual behaviours)
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