Random sampling by the whole class was used in this study,602 adolescents and their parents in two ordinary middle schools of Lanzhou,Gansu province were selected,and a self-constructed questionnaire was adopted to explore the characteristics of parent-adolescent communication.

Using Parent-adolescent Communication Questionnaire that were developed by ourselves,through Han,Hui,Dai junior middle school student′s self-reports to explore the characteristic of parent-adolescent communication of Junior Middle School Students.

This article is a review of theories, influential factors and measurement of parent-adolescent communication, and its relation to adolescent social adjustment is also summarized.

Analysis on parent-child communication situation and its influential factors in nuclear families in Shanghai;

This paper presented a description about the relationship between parent-child communication and child development.

Adolescence is a critical transition stage in one s life from immature to mature, especially in junior high school stage, all kinds of parent-child conflicts caused by children s performance, behavior and psychological problems make many families emerge the bad situation of parent-child communication.

Good child-parent relationship is based on the good communication between parents and children.

887 students selected from the 7~(th) to 12~(th) grades of an average middle school in Beijing and a key middle school in Jinan were asked to fill a questionnaire anonymously to explore the relationship between parent-adolescent communication problems and adolescents social adjustment.