title: Parental criticism and the adolescent experience.
abstract: In a questionnaire study of 883 high school students, subjects were asked the extent to which their parents criticized them for 18 criticizable behaviors or attitudes. Over 50% of the respondents reported being criticized for being disobedient, lazy, and messy-issues central to family life. Further analyses indicated a relationship between perceived criticism and self-image. The more criticism the teenager perceived for a specific behavior or attitude (e.g., being selfish), the more likely that teenager was to perceive himself/herself as being that way. The differential impact of criticism in the context of parental rejection was also explored.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Juvenile Research, USA.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: K I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Howard