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Abstract
Thirty-two adolescents between the ages of 13 and 19 participated in a semistructured interview regarding their perspectives on parental expectations and their strategies for expressing resistance. Thematic analyses indicated that adolescents perceive parental expectations as flexible and coconstructed rather than as firm, explicit, standing rules. Adolescents described their strategies for expressing resistance as multifaceted, consisting of overt behavioral strategies and covert cognitive strategies that reflect autonomous and relational motives. The implications of the findings were discussed with regard to conflict, socialization theory, and clinical models of noncompliance.
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Bios
C. Melanie Parkin completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Guelph where she currently teaches as a sessional instructor and supervises the clinical work of graduate students. Her research and clinical interests involve identity development and parent-child relationships during adolescence.
Leon Kuczynski is a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Guelph. He received his PhD degree at the University of Toronto. His empirical and theoretical research concerns socialization, parent-child relationships and bidirectional processes in social interactions.
