Conflict Between Mothers and Adolescents in Single-Mother, Blended, and Two-Biological- Parent Families

Laursen, Brett

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“…Compared to adolescent females, adolescent males in this sample were reportedly more attached or emotionally connected to their mothers. Adolescent males in this sample also had This suggests that mothers-son pairs experienced less parenting stress than mother-daughter pairs, concurring with previous research indicating that Hispanic mothers of adolescent females experience more frequent and more affectively heated conflict with their daughters when compared to their sons (Laursen (2005). An alternative explanation is also that other factors such as parents' lack of time due to employment responsibilities and/or limited economic resources (e.g.…”

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Hispanic Adolescents With Severe Substance Abuse Issues: Parental Involvement, Acculturation-Related Factors and Attachment

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The sample for this study consisted of 94 adolescent-mother pairs. The adolescent sample was 65% male, and 35% female, with a mean age of 15 years. More than half of the adolescents were born in the United States (60%) and had resided in the U.S. for an average of 12 years; 80% of the caregivers (primarily mothers) were foreign-born and lived in the U.S. for an average of 21 years.Correlation and hierarchical regression were used to answer the research questions. The findings indicate that the hypothesized model and corresponding anticipated effect of the relationship between parental school and peer involvement on vii adolescents' frequency of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use was not supported by the data. Parental "acculturation-related" variables did not explain any of the variance in adolescent substance use frequency in this sample. Mediation and moderation models were not supported either. However, some interesting relationships were found:

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Hispanic Adolescents With Severe Substance Abuse Issues: Parental Involvement, Acculturation-Related Factors and Attachment

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“…Measures of daily conflict derived from this instrument have been linked to adolescent self-esteem, school grades, and behavior problems (Burk & Laursen, 2005;Collins, Laursen, Mortensen, Luebker, & Ferreira, 1997;Shulman & Laursen, 2002). Differences between two-parent and single-parent households and between parent-child and friend relationships have been identified in terms of the frequency and management of daily conflict (Adams & Laursen, 2001;Laursen, 1995Laursen, , 2006. (Furman & Buhrmester, 1985) measured perceptions of relationships with mothers, fathers, and best friends.…”

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The correlates of conflict: Disagreement is not necessarily detrimental.

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Laursen²

2007

Journal of Family Psychology

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In this study, the authors examined whether concurrent associations between adolescent outcomes and disagreements with mothers, fathers, and best friends vary as a function of perceived relationship quality. Participants were 469 11-to 18-year-old youths from a culturally diverse community. Negative qualities of parent-adolescent and friend relationships were linked to adjustment problems (aggression, anxiety and depression, delinquency, and withdrawal). Positive qualities of parentadolescent relationships were linked to school grades and adjustment problems. Nonlinear associations between conflict and adolescent outcomes were moderated by negative qualities of relationships such that increases in conflict from low to moderate levels were linked to (a) higher school grades for adolescents in better but not poorer quality relationships and (b) greater delinquency and withdrawal for adolescents in poorer but not better quality relationships. Keywords adolescent conflict; mother-adolescent relationship; father-adolescent relationship; friendship Interpersonal conflict can be aversive. For this reason, contention is assumed to be antithetical to individual wellbeing. But is conflict necessarily pernicious? Many scholars believe that the valence of conflict depends on the family in which it arises: Conflict in supportive relationships is thought to be constructive and beneficial, whereas conflict in unsupportive relationships is considered destructive and detrimental. Agreement about this intuitively appealing assumption obscures the fact that it has received scant empirical attention. The present investigation was designed to address this proposition by exploring whether associations between indices of adolescent well-being and self-reports of disagreements with mothers, fathers, and best friends vary as a function of the perceived quality of the relationship in which the disagreement arises.Conflict is an essential form of communication. Over the course of a typical day, adolescents report three or four conflicts with parents and one or two conflicts with friends (Laursen & Collins, 1994). Conflicts signal the significance of topics and relationships, they provide a means for expressing concern and dissatisfaction, and they serve as a vehicle for individual growth and relationship transformation (Sillars, Canary, & Tafoya, 2004). Conflict, defined as overt behavioral opposition, is typically operationalized in terms of disagreement or incompatible behaviors. This designation has the advantage of disentangling conflict from competition and aggression and avoiding problems that arise when conflict is conflated with negative affect. Our goal was to describe the role conflict plays in shaping adolescent outcomes. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptWe defined conflict as disagreement so as to capture all instances of opposition; we focused on conflict with parents and friends because most adolescents report these relationships to be their closest, most influential, and most...

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“…Such differential socialization processes may also be linked to the adolescents' relationship with their parents. For example, it is well documented that mothers and daughters are more likely to engage in high conflict and disagreement in comparison to mothers and sons (e.g., Collins and Laursen 2004;Hay et al 1998;Laursen 2005). Therefore, it is essential to investigate gender differences because of boys and girls differences in behavior, but also because parents behave differently toward their sons compared to their daughters.…”

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A transactional model of bullying and victimization

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Fanti

2010

Soc Psychol Educ

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The purpose of the current study was to develop and test a transactional model, based on longitudinal data, capable to describe the existing interrelation between maternal behavior and child bullying and victimization experiences over time. The results confirmed the existence of such a model for bullying, but not for victimization in terms of maternal involvement, although a transactional relationship was supported for both bullying and victimization when considering conflict between parents and children. More specifically, the study's results show that maternal involvement, including monitoring, predicts negatively both the initial value of bullying and its degree of change over time. In other words, the more a parent is involved, and the closer her supervision is, the less possible it is for her child to participate in bullying others activity. Moreover, the findings show that increases in bullying behavior on the part of the child cause a reduction in maternal involvement and monitoring over time. Finally, initial conflict between parents and children influence both bullying and victimization, and in turn, the development of bullying and victimization affects parent-child conflict. Hence, the findings of this study offer support to the hypothesis that parental and child behavior reciprocally influence each other, rather than one shaping the other in a unidirectional fashion.

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Conflict Between Mothers and Adolescents in Single-Mother, Blended, and Two-Biological- Parent Families

Cited by 36 publications

References 43 publications

Hispanic Adolescents With Severe Substance Abuse Issues: Parental Involvement, Acculturation-Related Factors and Attachment

Hispanic Adolescents With Severe Substance Abuse Issues: Parental Involvement, Acculturation-Related Factors and Attachment

The correlates of conflict: Disagreement is not necessarily detrimental.

A transactional model of bullying and victimization

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