Perceived parental actions and evaluations of the family and its members
Parish, T.S.
Adolescence 28(111): 749-752
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-8449 PMID: 8237558 Document Number: 412824
In the present study, 64 college students described how their parents acted toward one another and also evaluated their families and various family members. Many significant correlations were found. Perceptions of parents' actions toward one another were associated with respondents' ratings of their families and individual family members. Interestingly, for females, but not males, there was a strong relationship between perceptions of how their fathers interacted with their mothers and how their mothers interacted with their fathers. Such findings lend support to the notion that ongoing parental interactions, and not just traumatic events such as parental death or divorce, are related to how youth and young adults subsequently view their families and the individuals within them.