The Self-Organization of Parent-Child Relations: Beyond Bidirectional Models

The study of parent-child relations has been one of the most active areas of research and theory building in developmental psychology. In general, socialization theories have evolved from unidirectional, main effect models to more complex bidirectional and transactional models (Maccoby, 1992; Maccoby and Martin, 1983). There now exists considerable evidence that children influence their parents' behavior as much, and in some cases more, than …