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Feldman, S. Shirley; Gowen, L. Kris; Fisher, Lawrence – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1998
Examined longitudinally the influence of gender and family factors assessed during adolescence on young adult romantic intimacy. Found that men reported more problems of insufficient intimacy than women, regardless of family dynamics. Flexible control, family cohesion, and mothers' marital satisfaction predicted young adults' intimacy. Family…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Family Relationship, Intimacy, Longitudinal Studies
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Scharf, Miri; Mayseless, Ofra; Kivenson-Baron, Inbal – Developmental Psychology, 2004
The association between attachment representations and adolescents' coping with 3 developmental tasks of emerging adulthood-leaving home, advancing in the capacity for mature intimacy, and developing individuation-was examined. Israeli male adolescents (N = 88) were administered the Adult Attachment Interview during their high-school senior year.…
Descriptors: Military Service, Intimacy, Developmental Tasks, Coping
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Macfie, Jenny; Houts, Renate M.; McElwain, Nancy L.; Cox, Martha J. – Social Development, 2005
Role reversal is a relationship disturbance in which a parent looks to a child to meet a parent's need for comfort, parenting, intimacy or play, and the child attempts to meet these needs. The current study examined, within a developmental psychopathology framework, the effect of father and mother role reversal with toddlers on the development of…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Behavior Problems, Mothers, Intimacy
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Mattis, Jacqueline S. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2002
This qualitative study examines the ways in which African American women use religion/spirituality to cope and to construct meaning in times of adversity. Content analysis of the narratives of a sample of African American women respondents (n = 23) revealed a set of eight nonoverlapping themes that explicate religiosity/spirituality's role in…
Descriptors: Females, Religion, Intimacy, Coping
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Williams, Maureen – Health Education Journal, 2004
Teenage magazines are viewed by their readers as "trusted friends" that provide reliable information on sex and relationship issues. Agony aunts and uncles receive approximately half a million letters each year from teenagers in the UK. Objective: To understand the perceptions, pressures and needs of young girls on issues pertaining to their…
Descriptors: Females, Conflict Resolution, Phenomenology, Early Adolescents
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Pridmore, John – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2004
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) adopted the pen-name "Jean Paul" in honour of Jean Jaques Rousseau. His "Levana or the doctrine of education" ("Levana oder Erziehlehre") was once a standard text and required reading in teacher education. Outside Germany the name of Jean Paul is now little known and the…
Descriptors: Play, Intimacy, Foreign Countries, Religious Factors
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Carter, Gertrude – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2007
America's romance with certainty leads to a belief that substances improve life and fits with the New Psychiatry. It's use of psychotropic medications to treat an array of mental illnesses changes evaluations, treatment and emergency coverage. The rising abuse of its prescription drugs alters the campus party scene, and challenges pretenses about…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Budgets, Psychiatry, Intimacy
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Tuval-Mashiach, Rivka; Shulman, Shmuel – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2006
The study was designed to explore qualitatively developmental differences in disagreement negotiation and resolution skills between adolescent and young adult romantic partners. Twenty adolescent and 20 young adult couples participated in the study. The Knox inventory was used to measure the level of disagreement between partners on ten domains…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Measures (Individuals), Qualitative Research
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White, Aaronette M. – Journal of Black Psychology, 2006
This study investigated father involvement among African American feminist fathers. Five interrelated parenting themes emerged from a narrative analysis of individual semistructured interviews that each father deemed important: (a) nurturance and emotional intimacy with children, (b) politically conscious parenting, (c) nonviolent discipline, (d)…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Child Rearing, Intimacy, Fathers
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Liao, Pei-Shan; Tu, Su-Hao – Social Indicators Research, 2006
This paper examines the scalability of intimacy permissiveness measures in Taiwan by using island-wide survey data. Among models for scaling analysis, the Guttman scaling model and two latent class models--the latent-distance model and Goodman's scale model--were employed to examine the scalability of the scale measures. The data were drawn from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Attitude Measures
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Harper, Melinda S.; Dickson, Joseph W.; Welsh, Deborah P. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study examined the link between rejection sensitivity, self-silencing behaviors, and depressive symptomatology among adolescent dating couples. Self-silencing was hypothesized to be the process mediating the association between rejection sensitivity and depressive symptoms. Our sample included 211 couples between 14 and 21 who were dating at…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Adolescents, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Depression (Psychology)
Moore, Kristin A.; And Others – 1995
For the past several decades, the teenage birth rate in the United States has exceeded that of other industrialized nations. To explore the factors behind this high birth rate, this volume summarizes recent research conducted in the United States on the perceived causes of teenage childbearing. This review is organized around the events leading to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Contraception, Early Parenthood
Kuo, Sai-hua – 1994
This study investigated verbal play, including teasing and self-mocking in a naturally occurring conversation, among four Chinese female friends. The study illustrates how these speakers engage in teasing activities and then discusses the implications and significance of verbal play. Examples are taken from a casual, playful conversation…
Descriptors: Chinese, Females, Foreign Countries, Interaction Process Analysis
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Seiffge-Krenke, Inge – New Directions for Child Development, 1997
Examined the developmental changes in romantic relationships of both healthy and diabetic adolescents. Found that, whereas healthy adolescents were increasingly able to balance both intimacy and conflict in their relationships with romantic partners, diabetic adolescents were unable to experience both positive and negative romantic qualities.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conflict, Dating (Social), Developmental Delays
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Collins, W. Andrew; Hennighausen, Katherine C.; Schmit, David Taylor; Sroufe, L. Alan – New Directions for Child Development, 1997
Presents evidence that differences among adolescents' behavior in romantic relationships are imbedded in both earlier and concurrent relationship experiences that foster a capacity for intimacy. Summarizes a 20-year longitudinal study based on this view, with particular attention to links between relationships with parents and interactions with…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Dating (Social), Friendship
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