title: Reciprocal associations between family and peer conflict in adolescents' daily lives.
abstract: Using a daily diary method, this study assessed daily episodes of family and peer conflict among 578 adolescents in the 9th grade to examine potential bidirectional associations between the family and peer domains. Adolescents completed a daily diary checklist at the end of each day over a 14-day period to report events of conflict and their emotional states for a given day. Overall, the within-person models provided evidence for the bidirectional nature of family peer linkages across gender and ethnicity. Adolescents experienced more peer conflict on days in which they argued with parents or other family members, and vice versa. Effect of family conflict further spilled over into peer relationships the next day and 2 days later, whereas peer conflict predicted only the following day family conflict. Adolescents' emotional distress partially explained these short-term spillovers between family and peer conflict.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Development and Family Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea. gracechung@snu.ac.kr
authors.forename: Grace H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Flook
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fuligni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D057189:Checklist; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014163:Transfer, Psychology