title: Associations among solicitation, relationship quality, and adolescents' disclosure and secrecy with mothers and best friends.
abstract: Disclosure and secrecy with mothers and best friends about personal, bad behavior, and multifaceted (e.g., staying out late) activities were examined using daily diaries among 102 ethnically diverse, urban middle adolescents (M = 15.18 years, SD = .89). Adolescents disclosed more and kept fewer secrets from best friends than from mothers and more frequently disclosed and kept secrets about their personal than their bad behavior and multifaceted activities. Better daily relationship quality was associated with more disclosure about personal and multifaceted activities and less secrecy about bad behaviors for both mothers and best friends. Overall, when mothers solicited information, adolescents disclosed more but also kept more secrets from them, whereas best friends' solicitation was mostly associated with more disclosure.
authors.affiliation: Teachers College, Columbia University, United States. Electronic address: mv2572@tc.columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Myriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Villalobos Solís
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester, United States.
authors.forename: Judith G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Smetana
authors.affiliation: Rochester Institute of Technology, United States.
authors.forename: Jessamy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Comer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D012650:Self Disclosure; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Adolescent–parent relationships; Disclosure; Friendships; Secrecy; Solicitation