I FEEL GOOD AT HOME AND WITH MYSELF: HOW DOES DYADIC COMPANIONSHIP WITHIN THE FAMILY AFFECT ADOLESCENTS’ WELL-BEING?

Sara Alfieri (), Sonia Ranieri (), Maura Pozzi (), Margherita Lanz (), Elena Marta () and Semira Tagliabue ()
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Sara Alfieri: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology
Sonia Ranieri: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology
Maura Pozzi: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology
Margherita Lanz: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology
Elena Marta: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology
Semira Tagliabue: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology, Brescia

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2016, vol. 124, issue 1, 3-20

Abstract: Research has widely underscored that the quality of the parent-child relationship affects the success with which young people negotiate the major tasks of adolescence, the extent to which they become involved in risk behaviors, and their ability to establish close relationships. Literature has also increasingly shown the effects played by parents’ marital relationship on the development of their adolescent children. Starting from a view of family as a social organization, the purpose of this study was to investigate the kind of relations existing between dyadic family and both adolescents’ individual and family well-being. Participants were 118 family triads (father, mother, son/daughter) with an adolescent child, for a total of 354 people. Findings showed that marital relationship companionship was not significantly related to adolescents’ well-being, whereas parentchild relationship was. Moreover, individual adolescents’ well-being was related to both fatherchild and mother-child companionship whreas adolescents’ family well-being was only related to father-child companionship.

Keywords: Well-being; Adolescence; Dyadic Family Relationships; Parent-Child Relationship; Couple Relationship. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A13 I00 I12 I19 I26 I31 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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