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Claire Hofer¹, Nancy Eisenberg, Tracy L Spinrad

¹Université Lille 3.

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Adolescents' conflict reactions remained stable, while mothers' changed over time. Maternal anger predicted adolescent behavior problems, and maternal reactions influenced adolescent internalizing issues.

Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Family Studies

Background:

Mother-adolescent relationships are crucial during adolescence.
Understanding conflict reactions (CRs) and their predictors is vital for healthy development.
Previous research has explored conflict dynamics, but longitudinal predictions require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the stability and change in mother-adolescent conflict reactions (CRs) over two years.
To investigate the predictive relationship between adolescents' earlier behavior problems and CRs, and vice versa.
To analyze how maternal and adolescent CRs evolve during the transition from early to mid-adolescence.

Main Methods:

131 mother-adolescent dyads participated, with adolescents aged 13 at Time 1 (T1).
Dyads engaged in a 6-minute conflict discussion at T1 and again two years later (T2).
Nonverbal and verbal CRs were coded; adolescent behavior problems were reported by mothers, fathers, and teachers.

Main Results:

Adolescents' CRs showed inter-individual stability, while mothers' CRs were less stable.
Mothers' and adolescents' negativity levels decreased over the two-year period.
Maternal CRs more frequently predicted and were predicted by adolescent behavior problems compared to adolescents' CRs.

Conclusions:

Adolescent conflict behaviors exhibit more stability than maternal conflict behaviors.
Adolescents' externalizing problems at T1 predicted increased maternal anger at T2.
Maternal anger and positive reactions at T1 were associated with fewer internalizing problems in adolescents at T2.