Relationship Quality Between Multiracial Adolescents and Their Biological Parents

National survey data were used to compare single-race white and minority adolescents with multiracial adolescents in terms of relationships with their parents. Three relational dimensions were considered: association/interaction, communication, and emotional closeness. Comparable relationship qualit...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 2000-10, Vol.70 (4), p.445-454
Main Authors: Radina, M. Elise, Cooney, Teresa M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Asians
Attachment Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Biological Family
Black People
Child welfare
Communication
Cultural Diversity
Emotional Adjustment
Ethnic Groups - psychology
Family - psychology
Family environment. Family history
Family Relations
Female
High School Students
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Interethnic marriages
Interpersonal Interaction
Interpersonal relationships
Junior High School Students
Latinos/Latinas
Male
Marriage - psychology
Medical sciences
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority Groups
Mixed ethnicity
Multiracial
Multiraciality
Natural parents
Parent Child Communication
Parent Child Relations
Parenting
Parents
Parents & parenting
Personal relationships
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Race
Racial and Ethnic Differences
Relationship Quality
Sex Differences
Sex Factors
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Teenagers
United States of America
USA
Well-being
White People
Whites
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Summary:National survey data were used to compare single-race white and minority adolescents with multiracial adolescents in terms of relationships with their parents. Three relational dimensions were considered: association/interaction, communication, and emotional closeness. Comparable relationship quality was found between parents and adolescents in all three groups, except that multiracial boys and their fathers were found to be less emotionally close and communicative. Implications for research are discussed.
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1037/h0087763