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- Title
PEER REFERENCING IN ADOLESCENT DECISION MAKING AS A FUNCTION OF PERCEIVED PARENTING STYLE.
- Authors
Bednar, Dell Elaine; Fisher, Terri D.
- Abstract
This study examined the relationship between parenting style and adolescent decision-making. Two hundred sixty-two college students completed a decision-making scale as well as a parenting scale in an effort to determine if the child-rearing style of their parents was related to the tendency of these late adolescents to reference peers rather than parents or other adults in decision making. The results indicated that adolescents raised by authoritative parents tended to refer to their parents for moral and informational decisions, while adolescents raised by authoritarian, permissive, or neglecting-rejecting parents more often referenced their peers for moral and informational decisions. Adolescents referred to their peers for social decisions regardless of how they were raised. Parental responsiveness was a significant factor in determining the source of adolescent decision-making assistance, but parental demandingness was not. It was concluded that less orientation toward peers during late adolescence seems to be another advantage of authoritative parenting.
- Subjects
ADOLESCENT psychology; DECISION making; PARENTING; CHILD rearing; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Adolescence, 2003, Vol 38, Issue 152, p607
- ISSN
0001-8449
- Publication type
Article