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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Adolescent Psychology
  • Family Studies

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  • Adolescent autonomy develops within family and peer contexts.
  • The dynamic interplay between parental support, adolescent autonomy, and peer influence requires further investigation.
  • Understanding within-person associations over time is crucial for developmental trajectories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the longitudinal within-person associations between parental autonomy support, adolescent general autonomy, and peer resistance.
  • To clarify how changes in these factors influence each other over time in early and middle-to-late adolescence.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study utilizing random-intercept cross-lagged panel models.
  • Data collected from 290 early adolescents and 220 middle-to-late adolescents over two years (four time points).
  • Analysis focused on within-person changes and concurrent/longitudinal associations.

Main Results:

  • Changes in adolescent general autonomy were concurrently associated with changes in parental autonomy support and peer resistance.
  • These within-person associations were not significant over a six-month longitudinal period.
  • Findings highlight immediate co-occurrence of autonomy shifts with parenting and peer dynamics.

Conclusions:

  • Increases in supportive parenting and peer resistance appear to co-occur with increases in adolescent autonomy at the individual level.
  • The study underscores the interconnectedness of autonomy development with family and peer influences in adolescence.
  • Further research is needed to elucidate the precise longitudinal mechanisms driving these relationships.