ADOLESCENT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：拟议的目标 研究是调查父母的婚姻关系 青少年的情感功能和浪漫关系功能 孩子 父母的婚姻行为与孩子 精神病理学，以及最近的儿童同伴关系。 然而，关于婚姻的特定方面如何影响 青少年的同伴关系，尤其是他们的恋爱关系。 考虑到青少年生活中浪漫关系的突出性， 这些关系对整个心理调整的重要性 成年后，需要更多的研究来更好地了解青少年是如何成长的。 在他们的恋爱关系中接近和表现。 这项拟议中的研究将调查父母的行为与他们的父母的行为之间的联系。 婚姻和青少年的浪漫关系沿着沿着四个维度： 冲突、沟通、支持和满足。 调查问卷数据将 从160对父母夫妇和160名高中毕业生那里获得了这些信息， 他们的浪漫关系。 青少年也完成了 关于他们对父母婚姻的看法的问卷调查。 四个维度的观测数据也将通过 录像的一个子集60父母和60青少年浪漫的夫妇， 一系列的互动。 正在收集青少年数据， NIMH资助的青少年浪漫关系研究。 当前 该项目是该赠款的增编，将涉及收集 来自160对父母的问卷调查数据和来自一个 60对父母夫妇的子集。 父母的婚姻功能在四个 关系维度被预测为与对应的 青少年的浪漫关系。 然而，根据此前 研究表明，青少年对父母婚姻行为的看法是 也被预测为至少介导这些关联中的一些。 确定父母婚姻与青少年之间的联系 儿童的浪漫关系功能对于理解 青少年在恋爱关系中的行为方式。 关系功能和心理健康之间的联系也 这些发现对于预防和治疗 关系障碍和相关的精神病理学。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The goal of the proposed research is to investigate the associations between parents' marital functioning and romantic relationship functioning of their adolescent children. Parents' marital behavior has been linked to child psychopathology and, more recently, to children's peer relationships. However, less is known about how particular dimensions of marriage influence adolescents' peer relationships, particularly their romantic relationships. Given the salience of romantic relationships in adolescents' lives and the importance of these relationships to psychological adjustment throughout adulthood, more research is needed to better understand how adolescents come to approach and behave in their romantic relationships. The proposed research will examine the associations between parents' marriage and adolescents' romantic relationships along four dimensions: conflict, communication, support, and satisfaction. Questionnaire data will be obtained from 160 parent couples and 160 high school seniors about these dimensions of their romantic relationships. Adolescents also complete questionnaires about their perceptions of their parents' marriage. Observational data of the four dimensions will also be obtained by videotaping a subset of 60 parent and 60 adolescent romantic couples during a series of interactions. Adolescent data are being collected as part of a larger NIMH-funded study of adolescent romantic relationship. The current project is an addendum to that grant and will involve collecting questionnaire data from 160 parent couples and observational data from a subset of 60 parent couples. Parents' marital functioning in the four relationship dimensions is predicted to be associated with corresponding dimensions of adolescents' romantic relationships. Yet, based on previous research, adolescents' perceptions of their parents' marital behavior are also predicted to mediate at least some of these associations. The identification of links between parents' marriage and adolescent children's romantic relationship functioning is important for understanding how adolescents come to approach and behave in their romantic relationships. Established links between relationship functioning and mental health also render these findings important for the prevention and treatment of relationship disturbances and related psychopathology.