Autonomy difficulties were assessed using a rating system that captures adolescents' recantations of their original position, which were assessed as the degree to which adolescents were observed to back down from their position during the interaction without appearing to have actually been persuaded that their position was incorrect (Allen et al., 2000; Allen et al., 1994). Recantations in each interaction were reliably coded as the average of scores obtained by two trained raters blind to other data from the study. Inter-rater reliability was calculated using intraclass correlation coefficients was considered in the “good” range (Intraclass r = .68) (Cicchetti & Sparrow, 1981).
