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This study examined the extent to which adolescents'behavioral autonomy was predicted by several aspects of the parent‐youth relationship that are encompassed by the general constructs connectedness and restrictiveness. Both of these general relationship constructs are composed of more specific social‐psychological predictors consisting of parental behaviors, parent‐adolescent authority dimensions, and indicators of family ties. A total of 657 adolescents (mean age = 16.3 years) and 753 parents responded to self‐report questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses from both the adolescents'and parents'perspectives in separate models. Many of the predictions were confirmed, indicating that adolescent behavioral autonomy often develops within contexts of relationship connectedness, such as continuing parent‐youth authority and supportiveness. Moreover, as expected, youthful autonomous behavior was inhibited by such aspects of relationship restrictiveness as punitive behavior and the perceived coercive abilities of parents.

The purpose of this study was to examine the socialization values of low-income white mothers from rural areas of southern Appalachia and lowincome black mothers from rural areas of the southeastern United States. A sample of 579 white mothers and 480 black mothers was interviewed and responded to a 16-item measure of parental values. The parental value choices of these two groups were compared with each other and with the parental value choices of middle-and working-class mothers from an urban area acquired in a previous study. In general, results indicated that both groups of low-income rural mothers selected values that were more conformity-obedience oriented than middle- and working-class mothers from urban environments. However, although evidence existed that the socialization values of low-income mothers was partially a function of socioeconomic standing, other evidence suggested that childrearing values may have resulted from special conditions faced by their respective subcultures and expectations for "success" from the larger social context.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- PART I: GENERAL FAMILY/MARRIAGE PROCESSES -- Introduction -- A Family-Wide Model for the Role of Emotion in Family Functioning -- A Meta-Analysis of Family Expressiveness and Children's Emotion Expressiveness and Understanding -- When My Mommy Was Angry, I Was Speechless": Children's Perceptions of Maternal Emotional Expressiveness Within the Context of Economic Hardship -- Psychosocial Moderators of Emotional Reactivity to Marital Arguments: Results from a Daily Diary Study -- Emotional and Relational Consequences of Coping in Stepfamilies -- Affect Pattern Recognition: Using Discrete Hidden Markov Models to Discriminate Distressed from Nondistressed Couples -- The Role of Emotions in Marriage and Family Therapy: Past, Present, and Future -- PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL AND PARENT-CHILD PROCESSES -- The Contribution of Older Siblings' Reactions to Emotions to Preschoolers' Emotional and Social Competence -- Children's Understanding of Emotion Communication in Families -- Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Emotional Reactivity: Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations -- Children's Emotional Reactions to Stressful Parent-Child Interactions: The Link Between Emotion Regulation and Vagal Tone -- The Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale (CCNES): Psychometric Properties and Relations with Children's Emotional Competence -- Parental Contributions to Preschoolers' Understanding of Emotion -- Children's Emotional Regulation and Social Competence in Middle Childhood: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Interactive Style -- Index

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