This study tested young adults’ perceptions of their parents’ communication competence as a mediating variable in the relationship between their demand/withdraw patterns and closeness with each parent. Participants included 280 young adult children. Bootstrapping analyses revealed that perceptions of each parent’s communication competence functioned as an important explanatory mechanism linking the adverse effects of parents and young adults engaging in demand/withdraw interactions and parent-young adult closeness. This finding underscores the significance of healthy relational communication between parents and older children and perceptions of parents’ ability to communicate in ways that display clarity, appropriateness, and effectiveness. Implications are provided.

这项研究测试了年轻人对父母沟通能力的看法，这是他们的需求/退出方式与与父母亲密关系之间的中介变量。参加者包括280名成年儿童。自举分析表明，对每个父母的沟通能力的理解是一种重要的解释机制，将父母和年轻人参与需求/退出互动和父母与年轻人之间的亲密关系的不利影响联系在一起。这一发现强调了父母与年龄较大的孩子之间健康的关系交流的重要性，以及对父母以清晰，适当和有效的方式交流的能力的认识。提供了含义。