Family communication patterns and relationship quality between emerging adults and their parents

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110272
Author(s):  
Erica Szkody ◽  
Cliff McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Family Communication Patterns ◽  
Parental Figures ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Conformity Orientation

Few researchers have examined how family communication patterns influence child help-seeking behaviors and child help-providing behaviors in relation to the parent-child relationship during the period of emerging adulthood. In the current study we utilized a latent profile analysis to determine family communication pattern types from two standard communication orientations (i.e., conversation orientation and conformity orientation). We also examined how pattern types were associated with parent-emerging adult relationship quality and help/support seeking/providing behavior within the family during the period of emerging adulthood as reported by emerging adults ( n = 129) and one of their parental figures ( n = 129). The data supported two family communication types (i.e., protective and pluralistic) created from conversation and conformity orientation scores and we utilized them to differentiate between relationship qualities and help/support seeking/providing behavior when those behaviors were reported by emerging adults but not their parental figures.

Relationship between family communication patterns with locus of control, self esteem, shyness and communication skills in adolescents

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 282-282
Author(s):  
M. Farahati
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Family Communication Patterns ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
Conformity Orientation ◽  
Conversation Orientation

IntroductionThe purpose of this study was to investigation the relationship between the dimensions of Family communication patterns (conversation orientation and conformity orientation) with adolescents’ locus of control, self esteem, Shyness and communication patterns.MethodThe participant in this study includes 367 students (232 girls and 135 boys) of first and second graders in high school in the first region of Tehran, that were chosen by available sampling method and filled the Revised family communication patterns questionnaire (RFCP), Levenson locus of control scale (IPC), Rosenberg self esteem questionnaire, shyness questionnaire of Cheeck and Buss and communication skills questionnaire. Regression analysis was used to predict each of the criterion variables by Dimensions of family communication patterns.ResultThe regression analysis result revealed that the Family conversation orientation has a positive and significant relationship with internal locus of control, high self esteem and communication skills and predicts them positively. Also Family conformity orientation has a positive and significant relationship with external locus of control and shyness and predicts them positively. And has a significant negative relationship with self esteem and predicts it negatively.ConclusionThe finding of present research show that the families with conversation orientation, who have the free, comfortable and rich relationships as a need of joyful family life, lead to the formation of internal locus of control, higher self esteem, less shyness and more communication patterns in children in comparison with the families with conformity orientation.

Family Communication Patterns, Rebelliousness, and Adolescent Reactions to Anti-Drug PSAs

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen R. Skinner ◽  
Michael D. Slater
Keyword(s):  
Family Communication ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Family Communication Patterns ◽  
Conformity Orientation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Negative Relationships ◽  
Open Family ◽  
Conversation Orientation

Research suggests that adolescents' family communication patterns should predict their reactions to anti-drug messages. The authors propose that the impact of such patterns is contingent upon the extent of adolescent rebelliousness. Fifty-one adolescents saw six anti-drug PSAs, and assessed whether they considered the messages believable and likely to persuade them and people they knew. Respondents were split into high/low groups with respect to conformity-orientation (authoritarian family communication patterns), conversation-orientation (open family communication patterns), and rebelliousness. As predicted, rebellious adolescents from the more authoritarian, conformity-oriented families considered the messages relatively less believable than did the non-rebellious adolescents from authoritarian, conformity-oriented families. Predicted negative relationships between family conversation-orientation and assessments of anti-drug PSA believability and persuasiveness were not found. Youth who had experimented with drugs, as predicted, did assess the anti-drug PSAs as less persuasive than those who did not.

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