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A telephone survey of 114 mothers and their sons, 132 mothers and their daughters, 64 fathers and their sons, and 64 fathers and their daughters investigated the predictors of adolescent adjustment, as separately estimated by parents and their children. Results revealed that the best predictors of adolescent adjustment were the level of conflict within the household over mundane domestic matters and the parent's general disposition towards the child's friends. When results were broken into parent-child gender dyads (mother-son, mother-daughter, father-son, father-daughter), it emerged that the father's perceptions tended to be the dominant predictor of adolescent male adjustment.
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Barber, J.G., Delfabbro, P. Predictors of Adolescent Adjustment: Parent-Peer Relationships and Parent-Child Conflict. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 17, 275–288 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007546023135
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