A longitudinal study of the relations between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychological well-being.
In this longitudinal study, the relationships between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychological well-being were examined in a sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 378) via children's and parents' reports of parent-adolescent conflict. The results indicate that parent-adolescent conflict based on ratings obtained from the different sources was concurrently related to hopelessness, life satisfaction, self-esteem, purpose in life, and general psychiatric morbidity at Time 1 and Time 2. Longitudinal and prospective analyses (Time 1 predictors of Time 2 criterion variables) suggest that the relations between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychological well-being are bidirectional. Although the strengths of association between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychological well-being were similar for male and female adolescents, father-adolescent conflict, relative to mother-adolescent conflict, was found to exert a stronger influence on adolescent psychological well-being.
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Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin. DANIELSHEK@CUHK.EDU.HK
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009679:Nuclear Family / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012737:Sex Factors