Robert D Laird

The Parent-Adolescent Relationship Context as a Moderator of Associations Between Secrecy and Disclosure to Parents and Adolescents' Adjustment.

INTRODUCTION Stattin and Kerr's (2000) seminal work illustrated the importance of adolescent disclosure, rather than parents' monitoring behaviors, in predicting adolescent adjustment. Subsequent work differentiated secrecy from disclosure, yet most of the existing research has examined these constructs in early or mid...