부모의 자녀 또래관계 관리가 청소년의 사회기술, 친구관계 질, 외로움 및 비행에 미치는 영향

The Effects of Parental Management of Peer Relationships on Male and Female Adolescents’ Social Skills, Friendship Qualities, Loneliness, and Delinquency

This study purported to examine relationships between parental peer management and adolescents' social skills, friendship quality, loneliness, and delinquency and further shed light on gender differences in these relationships. Four-hundred-seventy adolescents living in Seoul, Gyunggi, and Incheon areas (240 males and 230 females) completed pencil-and-paper assessments of parental management of adolescent peer relationships, adolescent social skills, adolescent friendship quality, adolescent loneliness, and adolescent delinquency. Given the lack of research validating the Parental Management of Peer relationship Inventory (PMPI; Mounts, 2001) using a Korean adolescent population and the possibility of cross-cultural differences in the structure of the parental peer management behaviors, exploratory factor analyses were conducted for the original PMPI items and developed the four scales (Consulting on Peer Relationships, Insisting/Prohibiting Certain Friendships, Emphasizing Healthy Friendships, and Autonomy Granting in Peer Relationships). Correlation and hierarchical multiple regression analyses suggest that parental consulting, autonomy granting, and emphasizing healthy friendships are positive parental peer management dimensions, with positive effects on adolescent social outcomes and negative or no effects on adolescent loneliness and delinquency. On the other hand, parental insisting/prohibiting was found to contribute to adolescents' feeling lonely and engaging in delinquent behaviors and have no effects on other adolescent outcomes. Gender differences were found in some relationships involving parental consulting and autonomy granting. Clinical implications of these findings were discussed.