title: Continuity and discontinuity in perceptions of family relationships from adolescence to young adulthood.
abstract: The present 8-year longitudinal study examined how multiple aspects of family relationships change across the transition from adolescence (Mage  = 15 years) to young adulthood (Mage  = 22 years) among 821 individuals. Results showed that there was more discontinuity than continuity in family relationships across this transition. Whereas a normative decline was evident in all measured aspects of family relationships during adolescence, this decline persisted for only a few dimensions of family relationships during young adulthood. Other aspects of family relationships stabilized or rebounded. There was little variation in these trajectories as a function of ethnicity or gender, suggesting that these changes in family relationships are generally normative. Results suggest that the transition to adulthood is a period of significant transformation in family relationships.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA. kimtsai@ucla.edu
authors.forename: Kim M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Eva H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Telzer
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fuligni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D000465:Algorithms; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D015141:Los Angeles; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult