title: Within-family conflict behaviors as predictors of conflict in adolescent romantic relations.
abstract: Continuity in conflict behaviors from (a) adolescents' behavior with parents and their behavior with romantic partners and (b) from parents' marriage to adolescents' romantic relationships were examined in a sample of 58 mother-father-adolescent families and the adolescents' romantic partners. The social relations model was used to analyze within-family reports of own and partner conflict behavior. Mother-father consensus about adolescents' use of physical aggression was associated with romantic partners' reports of adolescents' physical aggression. Less functional behaviors observed during observed marital conflict were associated with a range of less functional conflict behaviors in adolescents' observed interactions with romantic partners, including withdrawal, verbal aggression, negativity, ineffective problem solving, and low cohesion. Within-family conflict and methodological issues in the use of partner and self-reports of conflict behaviors are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Severance Laboratory, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA. Nancy.Darling@oberlin.edu
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Darling
authors.forename: Catherine L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cohan
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: Louisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003380:Courtship / Q000523:psychology*; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent