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Social Competence and Family Environment: 15‐Year Follow‐Up of Disturbed Adolescents
Author(s) -
ALBERS LAWRENCE J.,
DOANE JERI A.,
MINTZ JIM
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00379.x
Subject(s) - social competence , psychology , developmental psychology , deviance (statistics) , social functioning , social withdrawal , competence (human resources) , clinical psychology , interpersonal relationship , social change , social psychology , economic growth , statistics , mathematics , economics
Measures of familial emotional climate and communication deviance, obtained when subjects were adolescents, were used to predict social adjustment 15 years later. The results showed that disturbed family functioning predicted poor quality of later intimate relationships, but did not predict other dimensions of adult social functioning.