2007 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 95-105
The purpose of this article was study to linkage with social power and communications in the parent-adolescent relationship, and the father-mother relationship from adolescent's view. Social power based on referent power, expert power, legitimate power, reward power, coercive power, and attraction power. The subjects were 103 male and 64 female university students, and they completed questionnaire. The results conformed that (1) the parent-adolescent communications was positive when high scores that referent-expert power of adolescent from parents and high scores that fathermother trust from adolescent's view, and (2) the parent-adolescent communications was negative when high scores that reward-coercive power of adolescent from parents and high scores that father-mother rift from adolescent's view. We discussed these results from the theory of structural family therapy, balance theory and system theory.
