Longitudinal Development of Family Decision Making: Defining Healthy Behavioral Autonomy for Middle-Class African American Adolescents

G Smetana, Judith; Campione-Barr, Nicole; Daddis, Christopher

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00749.x

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Longitudinal Development of Family Decision Making: Defining Healthy Behavioral Autonomy for Middle-Class African American Adolescents

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Judith G Smetana

Nicole Campione-Barr

Christopher Daddis

Abstract

Abstract The development of decision-making autonomy was examined in 76 middle-class African American early adolescents (M=13 years) and their mothers, who were followed longitudinally for 5 years. Adolescent decision-making autonomy over conventional, prudential, multifaceted, and personal issues i...

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