Differences in Middle and High School Adolescents’ Self-disclosure and Information Management Strategies with Parents and its Relationship to Parenting Behavior
AUTHOR : 박영신
INFORMATION : page. 29~47 / 2015 Vol.22 No.2
ABSTRACT
Differences in middle and high school adolescents’ self-disclosure and strategies for information
management with parents and its relationship to parenting behavior were examined in prudential,
multifaceted, and personal domains. Participants consisted of 109 male and 131 female students. An
obligation to disclose, actual disclosure about their activities to parents, justifications for nondisclosure,
and strategies for information management were measured by self-disclosure questionnaire. Maternal
support, behavioral control and psychological control were measured by parenting behavior scale. The
results were as follows. First, middle school students felt more of an obligation to disclose than high
school students only in the prudential domain. Second, middle school students disclosed more than
high school students in all three domains. Third, adolescents justified nondisclosure in terms of
parental disapproval in the prudential domain and personal choices in the other two domains. Fourth,
adolescents mostly used the strategy of telling if they were asked. Fifth, maternal support and
behavioral control showed positive correlations with obligation to disclose, actual disclosure, and the
use of the strategies of telling all and telling if asked. However, psychological control showed
negative correlations with obligation to disclose, actual disclosure, and the use of the strategy of
telling if asked only in the personal domain. This study provided the basic information about middle
and high school adolescents’ self-disclosure and strategies for information management with parents
and found that Korean adolescents' self-disclosure and information management with parents were
fairly consistent with those of adolescents from other countries.