Domain-appropriateness of maternal discipline as a predictor of adolescents' positive and negative outcomes.
The purpose of the current study was to examine adolescents' perceptions of the appropriateness of maternal discipline across social domains and how domain-appropriateness was related to adolescents' prosocial and antisocial behaviors via adolescents' personal prosocial values. A total of 133 adolescents (54% girls; mean age = 16.23 years, SD = 1.27) completed questionnaires in their classrooms at school. Results suggest that adolescents perceived mothers as responding differently to their misbehavior and perceived different maternal discipline as appropriate as a function of the domain into which the misbehavior fit. Findings also suggest that domain-appropriateness of maternal discipline was related to adolescent outcomes (directly, and indirectly via personal values), suggesting the importance of domain-appropriate maternal discipline during adolescence.
School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. laura_walker@byu.edu
Laura M
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Padilla-Walker
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D010465:Perception; D010551:Personality; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011678:Punishment / Q000523:psychology*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012919:Social Behavior; D012945:Social Values; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires