Adolescents' Obedience to Parental Authority in Conflict Situations
- VernacularTitle:冲突情景中青少年对父母权威的遵从
- Author:
Ting WANG
;
Qinmei XU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Adolescent;
Parental authority;
Obedience;
Domain-specificity
- From:Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology
1993;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: The study examined adolescents' obedience,justifications,and feelings to parental authority as well as their interrelation in parent-adolescent conflict situations.Methods: 538 adolescents aged 10-to 18-year-old were investigated by questionnaires in light of different domains(personal,conventional,and friendship domains)selected from Smetana(2000).Results: ①The results suggested that their obedience to parental authority changed with different domains,as well as their justifications and feelings;②Adolescents' justifications of obedience focused on conventional rules,knowledgeable attributes,reciprocal relationships and physical consequences;③There were more negative feelings than neural or positive ones accompanied with their obedience;④Their justifications and feelings were different between obedience and disobedience groups,the conventional-rule-attribute was significantly correlated with negative feelings in both of obedience and disobedience groups,and the knowledgeable-attribute was significantly correlated with positive feelings in obedience group.Conclusion: Adolescents' conceptions of parental authority are domain-specific,and their obedience,justifications and feelings interrelate with each other.
