Development of Parent–Adolescent Relationships: Conflict Interactions as a Mechanism of Change
By Susan J T Branje. 2018
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Adolescence is a period of rapid biological and psychosocial changes, which have a salient impact on parent–child relationships. Parents and adolescents have to reorganize responsibilities and move toward a more egalitarian relationship. Although conflicts between parents and children become more frequent and more intense during adolescence, these conflicts are also thought to be a means to negotiate relational changes. The short‐term dyadic processes that occur during conflict interactions are important in the development of parent–adolescent relationships. Parent–adolescent dyads with more emotional variability during conflict interactions tend to adapt effectively and reorganize their relationships in response to the developmental needs of adolescents. Thus, parent–adolescent conflicts are adaptive for relational development when parents and adolescents can switch flexibly between a range of positive and negative emotions.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
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- Adolescent–Parent Relationships: Progress, Processes, and Prospects (2019, background): “This, in turn, may facilitate better adjustment in the face of the relational strains and autonomy demands characteristic of adolescence (Branje 2018, Lougheed 2019).”