For children, a parent's tone of voice can make all the difference to their emotions and responses. A recent study found that teens are far less likely to respond to their mother if she uses a "controlling" tone of voice.

Mother and teen daughter

A new study looks at the role that tone of voice plays when communicating with teenagers.

The study, which Dr. Netta Weinstein of Cardiff University led, involved more than 1,000 people aged 14–15 years.

The study is the first of its kind to address how people respond to different tones of voice when they receive instructions from their mother.

Featuring in the journal Developmental Psychology, the study included 486 males and 514 females in the target age group.

The scientists randomly assigned each participant to one of three groups. They then played each group 30 recorded messages that mothers of adolescents had delivered. The words of the message were identical, but the women used three different tones of voice.

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