Family Problem-Solving: How Do Families With Adolescents Make Decisions?

Molinari, Luisa; Everri, Marina

doi:10.18357/ijcyfs34201211486

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“…It is worth noting, however, that while regulated coping per se did not predict better conflict resolution for mother-youth dyads, it was a core component of mothers’ more expanded coping repertoires; balanced and varied coping may play a role on higher rates of resolution for mother-youth dyads than father youth dyads. This is reminiscent of findings suggesting that families using a variety of strategies were more likely to successfully problem solve (Molinary & Everri, 2012). …”

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“…For example, evidence from behavioral genetic studies indicate that child effects on the parenting they receive increases from childhood through adolescence (e.g., Avinun & Knafo, 2014). Further, conflict resolution and problem solving have been shown to be more parent driven in childhood but achieved through the actions of both parents and children during adolescence (Branje, van Doorn, van der Valk, & Meeus, 2009; Molinari & Everri, 2012). Considered together with evidence that problem behaviors and conflictual relationships with parents increase after childhood (Steinberg & Morris, 2001), adolescence is an opportune time to study the role of the child in the nature of youth and parent coping and conflict resolution and psychopathology.…”

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Adolescents’, mothers’, and fathers’ gendered coping strategies during conflict: Youth and parent influences on conflict resolution and psychopathology

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We observed gendered coping strategies and conflict resolution outcomes used by adolescents and parents during a conflict discussion task to evaluate associations with current and later adolescent psychopathology. We studied 137 middle-to-upper-middle class predominantly Caucasian families of adolescents (aged 11–16 years, 65 males) who represented a range of psychological functioning including normative (~1/3) sub-clinical (~1/3) and clinical (~1/3) levels of problems. Adolescent coping strategies played key roles both in the extent to which parent-adolescent dyads resolved conflict and in the trajectory of psychopathology symptom severity over a two-year period. Gender-prototypic adaptive coping strategies were observed in parents but not youth, i.e. more problem-solving by fathers than mothers and more regulated emotion-focused coping by mothers than fathers. Youth-mother dyads more often achieved full resolution of conflict than youth-father dyads. There were generally not bidirectional effects among youth and parents’ coping across the discussion except boys’ initial use of angry/hostile coping predicted fathers’ angry/hostile coping. The child was more influential than the parent on conflict resolution. This extended to exacerbation/alleviation of psychopathology over two years: higher conflict resolution mediated the association of adolescents’ use of problem-focused coping with decreases in symptom severity over time. Lower conflict resolution mediated the association of adolescents’ use of angry/hostile emotion coping with increases in symptom severity over time. Implications of findings are considered within a broadened context of the nature of coping and conflict resolution in youth-parent interactions, as well as how these processes impact on youth well-being and dysfunction over time.

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