CFD 1220 Lecture 21: PC21
Document Summary
Parent adolescent conflict: although parents and adolescents often disagree, their arguments are mostly over minor issues, conflicts between parents and adolescents are those arguments are not typically highly conflicted. More numerous during adolescence than during childhood. Substantially diminished by late adolescence less frequent but more forceful during middle childhood. Sources of parent adolescent conflict: mismatch between parent and adolescent expectations of autonomy for the adolescent, adolescent sexual maturity. & parental concerns regarding their adolescents" sexual behaviors: adolescent expectations regarding privacy and family boundaries. Well-managed vs poorly managed parent-adolescent conflict: effectively managed parent adolescent conflict. Fosters the interpersonal adaptations necessitated by the physical, social, and cognitive changes of adolescents: escalated or ineffectively managed conflict has been. The role of parent gender on parent-adolescent conflict: the conflict resolution styles of fathers and adolescents have different effects on delinquency than do the conflict resolution styles of mothers and adolescents. In father adolescent conflicts, the demand withdraw pattern is related to delinquency.