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PARENTS’ ATTUNEMENT: RELATION TO ADOLESCENT PROBLEM
BEHAVIOR AND THE MODERATING ROLE OF MARITAL CONFLICT
by
Sarah Duman Serrano
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PSYCHOLOGY)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Sarah Duman Serrano
Object Description
| Title | Parents' attunement: relation to adolescent problem behavior and the moderating role of marital conflict |
| Author | Duman Serrano, Sarah |
| Author email | duman@usc.edu; sarah.duman.phd@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-08-13 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Margolin, Gayla |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Davison, Gerald Manis, Frank Mennen, Ferol Williams, Marian |
| Abstract | Parental attunement involves understanding a child’s thoughts and feelings and adjusting parenting behavior in response to those thoughts and feelings. This project explores whether attunement is associated with adolescent risky behaviors and aggression, and examines whether marital conflict moderates that association. Seventy-three ethnically diverse community families with an adolescent child reported on marital conflict, parents’ attunement, and adolescent outcomes. They then participated in a conflictual triadic discussion, during which trained observers coded attuned behavior.; The study is strengthened by using both observations and adolescent report to measure attunement. Validity of the measures is supported by significant positive correlations with adolescents’ global report of feeling understood during the discussion. Both measures are related to adolescent outcomes, and each measure contributes unique information on parental attunement.; In hierarchical regressions, higher maternal and paternal attunement, according to observations and adolescents’ report, is consistently related to lower reported risk taking behaviors. Higher adolescent-reported maternal and paternal attunement is related to lower reported aggression, but observed attunement is not related to aggression. A significant interaction exists between marital conflict and observed paternal attunement. The negative relation between attunement and aggression holds only in families with low levels of marital conflict.; In ANOVAs, adolescents in families with two highly attuned parents engaged in significantly fewer risk taking and aggressive behaviors than adolescents in families with no highly attuned parents. Adolescents in families with two highly attuned parents also engaged in significantly fewer risk taking behaviors than adolescents in families with only one highly attuned parent. Follow-up regressions examining difference scores did not indicate that mothers’ vs. fathers’ attunement had a differential impact.; These findings complement outcome literature on parent-training intervention programs. The results reported here underscore the importance of prevention/intervention work in a family format, as marital interactions and parent-adolescent interactions can be important influences on adolescent aggression and risk taking. The measures used in this study could inform assessments of parent-adolescent interactions. |
| Keyword | adolescent; aggression; psychological intervention; parenting; parent-child relationship; risky behavior; teen sex |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3001 |
| Rights | Duman Serrano, Sarah |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Serrano-3470 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Serrano-3470.pdf |
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| Full text | PARENTS’ ATTUNEMENT: RELATION TO ADOLESCENT PROBLEM BEHAVIOR AND THE MODERATING ROLE OF MARITAL CONFLICT by Sarah Duman Serrano A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PSYCHOLOGY) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Sarah Duman Serrano |
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