Social competence and family environment: 15-year follow-up of disturbed adolescents.
Measures of familial emotional climate and communication deviance, obtained when subjects were adolescents, were used to predict social adjustment 15 years later. The results showed that disturbed family functioning predicted poor quality of later intimate relationships, but did not predict other dimensions of adult social functioning.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012306:Risk; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment