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. 2012 Nov;83(6):2089-103.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01826.x. Epub 2012 Aug 23.

Parent-child shared time from middle childhood to late adolescence: developmental course and adjustment correlates

Chun Bun Lam  1 , Susan M McHale, Ann C Crouter
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Parent-child shared time from middle childhood to late adolescence: developmental course and adjustment correlates

Chun Bun Lam et al. Child Dev. 2012 Nov.

Abstract

The development and adjustment correlates of parent-child social (parent, child, and others present) and dyadic time (only parent and child present) from age 8 to 18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and firstborns and secondborns from 188 White families participated in both home and nightly phone interviews. Social time declined across adolescence, but dyadic time with mothers and fathers peaked in early and middle adolescence, respectively. In addition, secondborns' social time declined more slowly than firstborns', and gendered time use patterns were more pronounced in boys and in opposite-sex sibling dyads. Finally, youths who spent more dyadic time with their fathers, on average, had higher general self-worth, and changes in social time with fathers were positively linked to changes in social competence.

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Figure 1
Developmental course of social time with mothers by birth order.
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Figure 2
Developmental course of social time with fathers by birth order.
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Figure 3
Developmental course of dyadic time with mothers by gender.
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Figure 4
Developmental course of dyadic time with fathers by birth order and gender.
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