The purpose of this study was to test whether sexual experience of adolescent daughters had an effect on their ability to problem solve effectively with their mothers on both sex related problems and non-sex related problems. A repeated measure, dependent sample design was employed using the measurements of communication proposed by Klein and Hill (1979) to evaluate dyad problem solving effectiveness. These measurements were amount of interaction, distribution of interaction, sequencing of interaction, normativity of interaction, solution quality, solution acceptance and problem solving effectiveness. Treatment included 21 dyads divided into three groups based on the daughters' sexual experience. Group 1 included kissing and light petting only. Group 2 included heavy petting but no intercourse. Group 3 included intercourse. The dayds were shown on a video monitor two open-ended problems, one sexually related and one financially related, and asked to discuss the situations and develop solutions. Their discussion was then audio taped for later evaluation and analysis. Multivariate and univariate anaysis revealed few significant differences in groups or video problem main effects. However, there was a trend in the data toward Group 3 having lower scores on problem solving effectiveness than Group 1 or 2. There was an interaction effect at the .003 level of significance for groups by problem on the dependent variable sequencing of interaction. The group where the daughters sexual experience was heavy petting but no intercourse was particularly noteworthy in that they scored higher than Group 1 or 3 on sequencing for the sexual video. This reveals some sensitivity for these girls in developing solutions to sexual issues with their mothers which the kissing and light petting group nor the sexual intercourse group expressed. Further research is needed with this group of adolescent girls in communication studies to understand the interaction sufficiently. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, Section: A, page: 0313. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75260 |
| Contributors | WILLIAMS, MARY ANN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 120 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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