Table 2.

Responses of the respondents from the intact family subsample about the communication in the family and parenting style of the mother and the father (N = 2542).

Predictors	n	%	p a
Satisfaction with family relationships:
High	2156	86.3
Low	343	13.7
Communication with father:
Easy	1494	63.1	<0.001
Difficult	872	36.9
Communication with mother:
Easy	1801	75.9
Difficult	573	24.1
Quality of communication in the family:
Good	1578	62.6
Poor	944	37.4
Father’s monitoring:
High	1243	49.3	<0.001
Low	1279	50.7
Mother’s monitoring:
High	1559	61.8
Low	963	38.2
School-related parental support:
High	1303	51.7
Low	1219	48.3
Father’s emotional support:
High	1452	57.1	0.002
Low	1090	42.9
Mother’s emotional support:
High	1563	61.5
Low	979	38.5
Father’s parenting style:
Authoritative-Reciprocal	1051	42.2	<0.001
Permissive-Indulgent	1024	41.2
Authoritarian-Repressive	195	7.8
Permissive-Neglectful	218	8.8
Mather’s parenting style:
Authoritative-Reciprocal	1156	46.2
Permissive-Indulgent	1089	43.5
Authoritarian-Repressive	159	6.4
Permissive-Neglectful	98	3.9
Family time together:
Often	1177	46.7
Rare	1345	53.3
Electronic media communication with parents
Often	1099	43.5
Rare	1428	56.5
Seeing of the father
Every day	1923	77.4	<0.001
Not every day	562	22.6
Seeing of the mother
Every day	2346	94.0
Not every day	149	6.0

^a Significant difference in respondents’ responses about communication in the family with father and mother (Chi-squared test).