Parents often have strong opinions on their son or daughter dating and choices they make within this time of their lives. Young adults share information to their parents, and it may have an effect on the relationship. In “Parental Reactions to Dating Relationships: Do They Make a Difference?” (Leigh A. Leslie, Ted L. Huston, and Michael P. Johnson, 1986) the author research these ideas. This is important information to know because young adults and parents can both learn from the results of the study and know how to improve on the parent-child relationship in this way. It is interesting to me because I do not know how normal it is to share dating information with parents, or what people normally do or do not share. The researchers are looking
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One hundred fifty-nine students, sophomore and junior aged, from Pennsylvania State University were the participants in the study. The students were ages eighteen to twenty-three with the average age being just under nineteen and eleven months old. There was a random list that Pennsylvania State University used with people whose home addresses were in the state of Pennsylvania. The reasoning for this was to have the opportunity for more student and parent interaction between each other. The reason for using a longitudinal study was to pinpoint four different dynamics with the influence processes used by the college students and the following change in the young adults’ relationships (Leslie, 1986). The first dynamic was how close the student felt with the parent, then the different stages of the relationship with a specific person, next was the actions the students made to influence parents, and lastly the parents’ actions towards the …show more content…
With this being only an eight percent gap, there was a twenty percent difference with the results of the young adults using ten or more different behaviors with their mother verses their father. The ratio was using 8.7 influences on the mother, with only 6.1 different influences on their father (Leslie 1986). Also, daughters were more likely to try and influence their mothers, over influencing the father, or the son influencing the mother. The results show that young adults do try to influence their parents quite normally and that how much they try to influence the parent is based on how close they are with their dating partner. The amount of attempts a child makes to influence the parent is also based on the approval or disapproval of the parent on the relationship. The relationship of the mother and child is related to disapproving behavior, while the closeness of the father does not have much of a difference on the reaction of the dating
One hundred fifty-nine students, sophomore and junior aged, from Pennsylvania State University were the participants in the study. The students were ages eighteen to twenty-three with the average age being just under nineteen and eleven months old. There was a random list that Pennsylvania State University used with people whose home addresses were in the state of Pennsylvania. The reasoning for this was to have the opportunity for more student and parent interaction between each other. The reason for using a longitudinal study was to pinpoint four different dynamics with the influence processes used by the college students and the following change in the young adults’ relationships (Leslie, 1986). The first dynamic was how close the student felt with the parent, then the different stages of the relationship with a specific person, next was the actions the students made to influence parents, and lastly the parents’ actions towards the …show more content…
With this being only an eight percent gap, there was a twenty percent difference with the results of the young adults using ten or more different behaviors with their mother verses their father. The ratio was using 8.7 influences on the mother, with only 6.1 different influences on their father (Leslie 1986). Also, daughters were more likely to try and influence their mothers, over influencing the father, or the son influencing the mother. The results show that young adults do try to influence their parents quite normally and that how much they try to influence the parent is based on how close they are with their dating partner. The amount of attempts a child makes to influence the parent is also based on the approval or disapproval of the parent on the relationship. The relationship of the mother and child is related to disapproving behavior, while the closeness of the father does not have much of a difference on the reaction of the dating