Advice About Life Plans From Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings in Always-Married and Divorced Families During Late Adolescence
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The frequency of advice about life plans that older adolescents in always-married and divorced families received from mothers, fathers, and siblings was examined. Also, a pattern-analytic approach that grouped adolescents according to the amount of advice about life plans received from each parent and a sibling was employed to explore the connections between patterns of advice and adolescents’ future occupational, educational, and family plans. The sample included 544 and 95 older adolescents in always-married and divorced families, respectively. Findings suggested that while adolescents relied on mothers for advice in both always-married and divorced families, adolescents in divorced families depended on fathers and siblings for advice less often than did adolescents in alwaysmarried families. Although there was some evidence of family context differences in the connections between patterns of advice and life plans, overall, adolescents
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