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Abstract
This longitudinal qualitative investigation considered youth disclosure to parents about friends as well as parents’ responses to such disclosure across the transition to middle school. African American and European American youth participated in qualitative interviews regarding their disclosure to parents about friendships in three consecutive years spanning the transition to middle school. Coding was completed in a two-step process that started with identifying themes regarding disclosure about friends as they reflected the experiences of all youth. Second, global categorizations of disclosure patterns during each year were used to categorize participants into four groups: stable complete disclosers, stable partial disclosures, increasing disclosers, and decreasing disclosers. We then identified themes regarding disclosure about friends as they distinguished these disclosure groups. Findings indicated that adolescent disclosure to parents about friends is embedded within the nature of adolescents’ relationships with parents and the manner in which parents respond to adolescent disclosure episodes across time.
Keywords disclosure, adolescence, parents, friends, qualitative
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Author Biographies
Anne C. Fletcher is a professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She studies parenting and parent-child relationships across ages ranging from middle childhood through adolescence.
Bethany L. Blair is an assistant professor in the department of Family and Child Sciences at Florida State University. Her research interests concern the intersection of youth’s individual social-emotional development and their peer relationships, particularly in the contexts of family and social media.
