As a school-age child, Chloe enjoyed leisure activities with her parents. Now, as a 14-year-old, she spends hours in her room and resists going on weekend family excursions. Explain Chloe's behavior. How might adolescent moodiness contribute to psychological distancing between parents and adolescents?

(Hint: Think about bidirectional influences in parent-child relationships.)

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Lyric Melton

25 May, 06:09

As a school-age child, Chloe enjoyed leisure activities with her parents. Now, as a 14-year-old, she spends hours in her room and resists going on weekend family excursions. Explain Chloe's behavior. How might adolescent moodiness contribute to psychological distancing between parents and adolescents?

(Hint: Think about bidirectional influences in parent-child relationships.)

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Easton Todd · Answer 1

Children's disruptive behavior (CDB)

Explanation:

Careful evidence suggests that children's disruptive behaviour (CDB) and quality of parenting influence one another bidirectionally. So it can be considered that separate contribution of the mother-child and father-child relationships to disruptive behaviours within a longitudinal context. Against this background, the reciprocal influence between CDB and five dimensions of maternal and paternal parenting was examined from kindergarten through grade 2 in a community sample of 644 children. Differences and similarities emerged in the direction of effects linking maternal and paternal parenting and CDB. At Chloe's infant stage, a reciprocal parent-child influence was evident for mothers only. However, as children grew older, a unidirectional effect from CDB to parenting was noted for both fathers and mothers.