Perceived parent-child adjustment in the family reunification among a group of runaway adolescents in Hong Kong

Article Abstract:

A study on adolescent boys in Hong Kong explores the best family responses that facilitate and attract runaway adolescents to return home and what parental characteristics suit most for family reunification. Counsellors and parents should develop appropriate intervention strategies to create positive impression, and calls for future research to compare the factors that prompt runaways to return home to that hinder them from doing so.

Public affairs, Hong Kong, Analysis, Runaways, Family reunions

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The capacity for romantic intimacy: exploring the contribution of best friend and marital and parental relationships

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This article examines romantic relationships among Israeli teenage boys and how they are influenced by marital, parent-child, and best friend relationships. The authors, analyzing the results from questionnaires, maintain marital relationships are associated with intimacy through the effect on the parent-child relationships, and the capacity for closeness and commitment are associated with best friend relationships.

Israel

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Changes in adolecents' conflict responses associated with consecutive presentation of hypothetical conflict situations

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A study of adolescent responses to hypothetical conflict situations shows that the adolescent's responses become more assertive and less constructive after seeing many conflict scenarios one after another. This finding may show that previous reports of adolescent reaction to conflict may be skewed by viewing continuous scenarios.

United States, Statistical Data Included, Conflict management, Interpersonal conflict

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