Introduction As an important mechanism of the parent-child interaction, the mother-adolescent communication plays a vital role in the socialization of the adolescence.

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.