Adolescents, Families, and Social Development (eBook)

How Teens Construct Their Worlds

Judith G. Smetana (Autor)

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2010
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781444390872 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents' social development in the context of the family.

• Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the author's research over the past 25 years
• Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than 700 families
• Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with adolescents in Hong Kong and China
• Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development
• Considers both popular sources such as movies and public surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, and developmental psychology
• Explores how different strands of development, including autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention, become integrated and coordinated in adolescence

Judith G. Smetana is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Developmental Psychology at the University of Rochester, where she also held the Frederika Warner Chair in Human Development from 1995 to 1998. She has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and she is the author of more than 150 articles and chapters on the development of children's moral and social reasoning and on adolescent-parent relationships in different ethnic and cultural contexts.

Inhalt

Adolescents, Families, and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds 1
Contents 7
Preface 8
1: Introduction: Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families 11
2: Studying Adolescent–Parent Relationships from the Lens of Developmental Psychology 23
3: Conflicts and Their Vicissitudes 41
4: Parents’ Voices: Conflicts and Social Conventions 53
5: Adolescents’ Voices: Autonomy and the Personal Domain 76
6: Autonomy, Conflict, Connectedness, and Culture 106
7: Adolescent Relationships and Development within and between Cultures 130
8: Adolescent–Parent Relationships in African American Families 149
9: Beliefs about Parental Authority 182
10: Parenting Styles and Practices 203
11: Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent–Parent Relationships 226
12: Coordinations and Change in Social Development 259
13: Life Beyond Adolescence: Transitions to Adulthood 281
References 289
Author Index 316
Subject Index 323

Rezensionen

"Overall, this book gives great detail on adolescent
parent relationships and how they effect the development of
children . . . This is a comforting message, one very different
from popular accounts, and one that parents and adolescents would
benefit from appreciating" (Journal of Youth &
Adolescence, 5 December 2012)
"Few scholars have influenced the contemporary study of
adolescent-parent relationships as much as Judith Smetana. I
highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the ways in
which family relationships are transformed during this stage of
life."

--Laurence Steinberg, Temple University

"In this very thoughtful book Judith Smetana provides deep
and insightful understandings of adolescence. Smetana masterfully
positions adolescence in explanations of difficulties and
developmental progress during these years. This splendid book is
indispensable for anyone interested in adolescence, social and
family relationships, moral theory, culture, and
development."

--Elliot Turiel, University of California Berkeley

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Adolescence, social psychology, family psychology, parenting, family studies • Psychologie • Psychology • social development • Soziale Entwicklung
• ISBN-13: 9781444390872 / 9781444390872