Prospective content in parent-adolescent conversations about the upcoming transition to high school

Figures & data

Table 1. Distribution of prospective content incidents by category.

Category	Total (N = 109)	%	Collaborative (N = 57)	%
Episodic memory of the past in consideration of future actions	28	25.69	11	19.30
Simulation (imaginative, navigational, intellectual, social)	59	54.13	32	56.14
Reasoning about counterfactuals	11	10.09	5	8.77
Constructing multiple possible futures	11	10.09	9	15.79

Table 2. Distribution of collaborative prospective content.

Extended by	N = 57	%
Parent	34	59.65
Adolescent	23	40.35
Type of pattern
Shift	10	17.54
Maintain	28	49.12
Augment	19	33.34

Table 3. Example of coding for collaborative prospective content.

Code	Definition/clarification	Excerpt
Augmentation	The prospective content of one partner is supplemented or co-constructed by a partner without changing entirely the initial content.	P: How do you get to school? A: I want to really walk by myself. P: Walk? So you have to get up really early then. A: No P: Can you meet up with, can you meet up with A: Like call M and then tell him to wait P: Meet up with him, yeah can you meet up with him then walk to M’s house or his house? A: Sure