Sex differences within the family: Studies of adolescent and parent family interactions
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Vol. 16 (3) , 199-220
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02139091
Abstract
Sex differences in verbal family interactions were investigated in a group of 79 adolescents and parents from normal and psychiatric settings. The analyses were designed to study these differences in both generations, parent and adolescent. Parent and adolescent interactions with one another were observed in a semistructured, revealed-differences family discussion. All of the individual speeches were then scored with our Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS). Initial predictions involved both adolescent and parent differences. These hypotheses were only partially confirmed. The strongest findings pertained to parent sex differences, as we found strikingly higher levels of cognitive enabling speeches expressed by fathers and significantly more speeches addressed to fathers. We discuss several alternative interpretations of these findings. Perspectives included in our considerations are direction of effect and influences of task/context upon the expression of family sex differences.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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