Family correlates of adolescent self-monitoring and social competence.
The purpose of this study was to investigate linkages between adolescent self-monitoring, global social competence, and parenting and family environment dimensions of support and encouragement of autonomy. The sample consisted of 233 young women and 199 young men at 2 southwestern universities. The primary measures used were the Family Environment Scale (R. H. Moos, 1981), the Parent Behavior Form (L. Worell & J. Worell, 1974), the revised Self-Monitoring Scale (M. Snyder, 1987), and the Texas Social Behavior Inventory (R. Helmreich, J. Stapp, & C. Ervin, 1974). Findings indicated that family variables are more strongly associated with social competence than with self-monitoring; family support was, overall, a more important ingredient of social competence than was autonomy. Women and men had different patterns of associations among specific variables.
Schoenrock
C J
CJ
Horizons Family Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Bell
N J
NJ
Sun
S W
SW
Avery
A W
AW
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012944:Social Support