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ABC framework for studying family transformation at adolescence Affect - emotion Behavior Cognition Movement into adolescence is characterized by a normative reallignment Affective Reallignment: increase in tension during early adolescence high conflict is NOT usual entry into adolescence requires a readjustment of the entire family Behavioral realignment adolescents . . . gain power at the expense of mothers become more self-monitoring seek and are granted more autonomy/privacy

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Cognitive realignment (note that these models explain affective and behavioral realignment) Collins: conflict occurs when there is a violation of expectations conflict evokes the formation of new models (similar to Piagetian concept of disequilibation) Smetana: conflict occurs when parents and adolescents differ in their view of the legitimate domain of parental authority Realignment in affect, behavior, or cognition requires realignment in other domains change by one member of the family system requires readjustment of the others

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Autonomy & parenting style Parenting style is a global assessment of the overall quality of parenting that an individual adolescent experiences:   Four types of parenting styles   Key points about parenting style: parenting must be age appropriate strictness isn't bad balance of psychological autonomy and behavioral control parenting must be issue driven Smetana's interpretation of styles in terms of legitimacy of parental authority authoritarian makes the conventional moral indulgent makes the conventional personal Style research comes from the social learning tradition