of mechanism was actually functioning and could account for the findings observed. It is noteworthy, however, that predictions from maternal support were found over and above predictions from adolescent recanting behavior with mothers, thus suggesting that family autonomy and support processes may each have unique contributions to make in understanding teen-peer interactions, just as they have been found to uniquely explain other adaptive outcomes in adolescence ( Allen, Hauser et al., 2002; Allen, Marsh et al., 2002; Jaccard et al., 2005).
