Adolescents and their mothers participated in a revealed differences task at the age 13 assessment in which they discussed a family issue that they had separately identified as an area of disagreement. Adolescents and their parents were then brought together, and the discussion began with the adolescent playing an audiotape that he or she had previously recorded with an interviewer in which he or she stated the problem, his or her perspective on it, and what the adolescent thought his or her parent's perspective was. Typical topics of discussion included money, grades, household rules, friends, and sibling issues. These interactions lasted eight minutes and were videotaped and then transcribed.
