TY - JOUR
T1 - Within-family conflict behaviors as predictors of conflict in adolescent romantic relations
AU - Darling, Nancy
AU - Cohan, Catherine L.
AU - Burns, Andrew
AU - Thompson, Louisa
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the help of the many students at Bard College and Oberlin College who worked on the Continuity of Close Relationships Project, as well as the invaluable assistance of David Kenny. This project was funded by Grant #R03 MH63792 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Continuity in conflict behaviors from (a) adolescents' behavior with parents and their behavior with romantic partners and (b) from parents' marriage to adolescents' romantic relationships were examined in a sample of 58 mother-father-adolescent families and the adolescents' romantic partners. The social relations model was used to analyze within-family reports of own and partner conflict behavior. Mother-father consensus about adolescents' use of physical aggression was associated with romantic partners' reports of adolescents' physical aggression. Less functional behaviors observed during observed marital conflict were associated with a range of less functional conflict behaviors in adolescents' observed interactions with romantic partners, including withdrawal, verbal aggression, negativity, ineffective problem solving, and low cohesion. Within-family conflict and methodological issues in the use of partner and self-reports of conflict behaviors are discussed.
AB - Continuity in conflict behaviors from (a) adolescents' behavior with parents and their behavior with romantic partners and (b) from parents' marriage to adolescents' romantic relationships were examined in a sample of 58 mother-father-adolescent families and the adolescents' romantic partners. The social relations model was used to analyze within-family reports of own and partner conflict behavior. Mother-father consensus about adolescents' use of physical aggression was associated with romantic partners' reports of adolescents' physical aggression. Less functional behaviors observed during observed marital conflict were associated with a range of less functional conflict behaviors in adolescents' observed interactions with romantic partners, including withdrawal, verbal aggression, negativity, ineffective problem solving, and low cohesion. Within-family conflict and methodological issues in the use of partner and self-reports of conflict behaviors are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.10.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 18992935
AN - SCOPUS:56449129748
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 31
SP - 671
EP - 690
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
IS - 6
ER -
