Healthy Parent-Child Relational

Development
Khadija Patty
Paul Velazquez
Cristina Cota
Michael Freborg

What is a Healthy Parent-Child

Relationship?
According to the National Center of Parent
Family and Community Engagement, a healthy
parent-child relationship helps drive the
child's emotional, physical, and intellectual
development (Brazelton & Cramer, 1990)

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The Principles of Interpersonal

Communication use
Effectiveness and shared meaning
Communication is inevitable and necessary in
order to have a healthy relationship with your
child
Parent-child communication is a 2 way process
Content and relational messages are
Important in developing a parent child
relationship.

What We Know About Parent Child

Relational Development
Having an open parent-child communication balances
family adaptability and cohesion (Givertz, 2009)
Valley and Guerrero (2012), collaborating and
compromising creates relational satisfaction.
Having a parent on social media (eg. Facebook) did not
result in perceptions of greater privacy invasions, but
was associated with decreased conflict in parent-child
relationship (Kanter, Afifi, Robbins, 2012).

Cont.
Multiple studies by Ackerman et al., (2011);
Eisenberg et al.,(2005) have shown that warm,
pleasant, and responsive parenting practice
are conducive to effective child socialization.

Definition of Theories
Communication Theory of Identity
Personal, Enactment, Relationship, Communal
frames

Communication Privacy Management

Ownership, Permeability, and Co-ownership

Investment Model
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Investments , Satisfaction

Communication Theory of Identity

Guerrero defines identity as the person we think
we are and communicate to others.
Personal Frame: What kind of characteristics
do you want to possess
Enactment Frame: Find a balance

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Building your Relationship

Communication starts with nonverbal
behavior
According to Grebelsky-Lichtman. (2014)
Study by Barbato, Graham, Perse.(2003)

Communication Privacy Management

(Ownership, Permeability, and Co-ownership)
Helps to explain how individuals maintain
privacy boundaries (Guerrero et al., 2014)
Boundaries are set up to control risks
associated with disclosing private information
(Guerrero et al., 2014)

Relational Quality & Trust

According to Petronio (1994), when there is less permeability
between the parent and child it is found that they will
question their parents motives more and have thicker privacy
boundaries.

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CPM, Parents on Facebook,

and Privacy Invasions
Exploring parental Facebook friend
requests from a (CPM) perspective (Child &
Westermann, 2013)
The impact of Facebook on the Parent-Child
Relationship (Kanter et al., 2012)

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Investment Model
Myers and Glover (2007, relational
maintenance is important in a childs
transition into adulthood.
Ledbetter and Beck (2014) , Positive
psychosocial outcomes on children.
On satisfaction, Vogl-Bauer, Kalbfleisch, and
Beatty(1999) notes that the more benefited
adolescents perceived themselves, the more
satisfied they tended to be.

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Why is this a problem for

communication scholars
Austin (1993),
Schrodt (2009).

Conclusion
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Analysis and Recommendation Based

on the research

Questions?