Dynamics of mother–adolescent and father–adolescent autonomy and control during a conflict discussion task.

Adolescence is characterized by increases in autonomy, yet we have limited knowledge about how parents and adolescents may navigate this transition in real time. We assessed dynamic bidirectional associations between parental behavior-specifically, autonomy support and control-and adolescent autonomy in both mother-adolescent and father-adolescent dyads during a 10-min conflict discussion task (N = 86, 32 girls). Observers rated parental...