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Attribution processes in mother-adolescent conflict
N C Grace1, M L Kelley, A P McCain
1Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
Attributions reported by 115 mothers and 122 adolescents were examined as they related to family conflict. Subjects completed measures of parent-adolescent conflict (Issues Checklist, Conflict Behavior Questionnaire) and the Mother-Adolescent Attribution Questionnaire. The results revealed that parent-adolescent conflict correlated with mothers' and teenagers' negative attributions. Specifically, self-reported conflict was positively correlated with mothers' and teenagers' beliefs that one another's negative behavior was intentional, selfishly motivated, and blameworthy.