"Best Bets" to Promote Quality Parent-Child Relationships:
Promote Respect in Parent-Child Relationship

Hightower (1990) conducted a longitudinal investigation of 141 subjects from Berkeley, California. Measures of interpersonal relations, psychological health, and personality were administered when the subjects were age 13 and again at age 50. Results suggest that the degree of respect in a parent-adolescent relationship predicted the adolescent's focus on and involvement in relationships with peers and parents.


 
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