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Parent-Adolescent Conflict as Sequences of Reciprocal Negative Emotion: Links with Conflict Resolution and Adolescents' Behavior Problems
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Although conflict is a normative part of parent–adolescent relationships, conflicts that are long or highly negative are likely to be detrimental to these relationships and to youths’ development. In the present article, sequential analyses of data from 138 parent–adolescent dyads (adolescents’ mean age was 13.44, SD = 1.16; 52 % girls, 79 % non-Hispanic White) were used to define conflicts as reciprocal exchanges of negative emotion observed while parents and adolescents were discussing “hot,” conflictual issues. Dynamic components of these exchanges, including who started the conflicts, who ended them, and how long they lasted, were identified. Mediation analyses revealed that a high proportion of conflicts ended by adolescents was associated with longer conflicts, which in turn predicted perceptions of the “hot” issue as unresolved and adolescent behavior problems. The findings illustrate advantages of using sequential analysis to identify patterns of interactions and, with some certainty, obtain an estimate of the contingent relationship between a pattern of behavior and child and parental outcomes. These interaction patterns are discussed in terms of the roles that parents and children play when in conflict with each other, and the processes through which these roles affect conflict resolution and adolescents’ behavior problems.
Date Created
2015-08-01
Contributors
- Moed, Anat (Author)
- Gershoff, Elizabeth T. (Author)
- Eisenberg, Nancy (Author)
- Hofer, Claire (Author)
- Losoya, Sandra (Author)
- Spinrad, Tracy (Author)
- Liew, Jeffrey (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- Department of Psychology (Contributor)
- Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics (Contributor)
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32 pages
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Identifier
Digital object identifier: 10.1007/s10964-014-0209-5
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Identifier Value
0047-2891
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Identifier Value
1573-6601
Series
JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE
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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.35569
Preferred Citation
Moed, Anat, Gershoff, Elizabeth T., Eisenberg, Nancy, Hofer, Claire, Losoya, Sandra, Spinrad, Tracy L., & Liew, Jeffrey (2015). Parent-Adolescent Conflict as Sequences of Reciprocal Negative Emotion: Links with Conflict Resolution and Adolescents' Behavior Problems. JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE, 44(8), 1607-1622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-014-0209-5
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This is the authors' final accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-014-0209-5, opens in a new window
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