Teens use peers as gauge in search for autonomy
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 03:00
in Psychology & Sociology
As teens push their parents for more control over their lives, they use their peers as metrics to define appropriate levels of freedom and personal autonomy. They also tend to overestimate how much freedom their peers actually have. Those are the conclusions of new research that appears in the journal Child Development; the research was conducted at The Ohio State University.