construct an index of parent-child communication quality by comparing responses to statements about the children’s well …-being from both children and their parents. Applying the constructed communication measure in a continuous treatment empirical … behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may …

Children are nowadays seen as self-reliant subjects able to articulate their wishes and to participate in family … decisions. International studies have shown that children in Austria participate in family affairs only to a moderate extent …. National studies just as well indicate that there is much more interest on the part of the children to engage in family affairs …