The Communication Problem Between Korean American Adolescents and Their Parents

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The research problem was to investigate the acculturational, communicative, and authoritarian parenting aspects of conflict between Korean American adolescents and their parents and to examine the most significant of those aspects in order to improve understanding the nature of parent-adolescent conflict for Korean Americans. The expected research result was that the communicative aspect of conflict between Korean American adolescents and their parents would be more significant than the acculturational or authoritarian parenting aspect. In particular, this study proposed that a destructive and negative communication relationship would be the most significant factor for parent-adolescent conflict in Korean American families. The results indicated that both the communicative aspect and authoritarian parenting style were significant predictors for parent-adolescent conflict, but the communicative aspect was the most significant predictor. However, even though the authoritarian parenting aspect was less significant than the communicative aspect, authoritarian parenting style was highly significant.

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