ABSTRACT
Rooted in the belief that quality, anxiety-free communication is central to healthy and satisfying family relationships, Lucchetti, Powers, and Love (2002) developed a measure that focused on context-specific apprehension experienced by young adults when communicating with their parents. Although much is known about the perils of communication apprehension for adults and children, little is known about the communication apprehension of young adults. In developing their measure of child-parent communication apprehension, the authors distinguished between general communication apprehension (i.e., dyadic communication apprehension) and specific person-centered communication apprehension experienced in parent-child relationships.
