How Should Mothers React When They First Learn About Their Child's Involvement With Deviant Peers? The Adolescents' Perspective.
Little is known regarding how parents' responses when first learning about their adolescents' deviant peer affiliation affect adolescents' further affiliation and disclosure of risk behavior to parents. Studies on the effects of parents' warnings to control adolescents' material or personal informat...
| Published in: | Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 935 - 952 |
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Springer Nature
May2021
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