"This is inappropriate! I'm your daughter, not your friend!": South Asian American Daughters' Roles as Reluctant Confidant and Parental Mediator in Emerging Adult Child-Parent Relationships

abstract: This dissertation explores South Asian American (SAA) emerging adult daughters' roles as their parents' reluctant confidants and mediators of conflict. Using Petronio's (2002) communication privacy management theory (CPM) as a framework, this dissertation investigates daught...

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Other Authors: Nemmers, Geeta Khurana (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15828