The adolescent telephone years

While almost no published research has been completed on adolescent telephone use, it has been found that adolescents report their telephone use to be an area of conflict with their parents. Data from 160 adolescents aged 14 years and some (88) of their parents showed that girls had twice the telephone use and more parent-adolescent conflict than boys. Boys and parents of both bays and girls reported that telephone use was strongly related to conflict, but girls did not. Boys' telephone use was also correlated with independence the boys wanted, but. such was not true for girls. High adolescent telephone use was related to the control a parent wanted over the telephone. It appears that parents control male, but not female, telephone use and males wanted more independence over telephone use; whereas female adolescents seem already to have this independence.