| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 兒童與家庭學系碩士在職專班 === 101 === Abstract
Based on the social domain theory, this study aimed to examine the actual states and the relation between adolescent-parent decision-making in different domains and adolescents’ autonomy as well as the discrepancy of autonomy between different decision-making styles. The adolescent-parent decision-making included jurisdiction and communication in this study. 752 subjects study in the Taipei City or New Taipei City from 7th to 9th grade and their caretakers were their mothers or fathers.
First of all, the researcher divided adolescents’ daily issues into five domains-“social morality”, “daily convention”, “schoolwork”, “leisure”, and “friend”. The results showed early adolescents perceived they had a certain degree of personal jurisdiction and perceived more communication with parents in each different domain. In addition, adolescents also perceived they had a certain degree of autonomy.
Secondly, the researcher used dummy variables to examine the relation between adolescent-parent decision-making and adolescents’ autonomy. Beside the “social morality” domain, there was a significant correlation between communication and autonomy within other four domains. However, the relation between decision-making and autonomy was different in different domains.
Finally, the researcher used the cluster analysis to divide adolescent-parent decision-making into four styles－“more communication and parental authority” , “more communication and co-decision-making”, more communication and adolescent jurisdiction” and “less communication and adolescent jurisdiction”. There was a significant difference on adolescent autonomy between different styles within various domains.
It seemed that communication was more important than adolescents’ jurisdiction during adolescent-parent decision making for autonomy development. Especially, adolescents lacked for autonomy when parents communicated less with adolescents but delegated adolescents more jurisdiction.
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