Table 1.
Means and SDs for mother– and father–adolescent relationship qualities as a function of adolescent gender and family earner status.
| Girls | Boys | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father-earner | Dual-Earner | Father-Earner | Dual-Earner | |||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Acceptancea | ||||||||
| Mothers | 4.50 | .46 | 4.11 | .61 | 4.34 | .53 | 4.40 | .53 |
| Fathers | 4.24 | .66 | 3.94 | .64 | 4.20 | .51 | 4.15 | .62 |
| Conflictb | ||||||||
| Mothers | 1.85 | .55 | 2.57 | .98 | 2.30 | .90 | 2.23 | .66 |
| Fathers | 1.90 | .62 | 2.34 | .94 | 2.20 | .90 | 2.17 | .77 |
| Involvementc | ||||||||
| Mothers | 1201.19 | (448.35) | 1048.87 | (500.79) | 837.83 | (459.41) | 827.55 | (547.64) |
| Fathers | 867.74 | (360.68) | 788.89 | (489.83) | 768.88 | (463.05) | 835.85 | (586.18) |
| Knowledged | ||||||||
| Mothers | 52.69 | 8.50 | 52.02 | 9.35 | 53.44 | 7.80 | 52.36 | 8.03 |
| Fathers | 45.79 | 9.47 | 44.86 | 11.62 | 43.41 | 11.19 | 46.16 | 11.66 |
a
Acceptance is rated on a 5-point Likert scale
b
Conflict is rated on a 6-point Likert scale
c
Involvement is measured in minutes per 7 days, ranging from 30 to 2,680 min
d
Knowledge is measured as the percentage agreement between parents’ and adolescents’ responses and ranges from 0% to 100%