The Impact of Adolescent Conflict Resolution Self-Efficacy on Parent-Child Conflict and Relationship Satisfaction
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Ho, Ying-Xiu
Abstract
According to Bandura, self-efficacy is beneficial to an individual''s adaption and performance. It attains one’s expected view, behavior, and performance through the control of situations. Conflict resolution self-efficacy plays a key role in the proper handling of conflicts. However, majority of the existing empirical studies on parent-child conflict had primarily focused on parental efficacy and had minority on the child’s conflict resolution self-efficacy. Therefore, the first purpose of this study is to examine the possible associations between parent-child conflict frequency and satisfaction level as moderated by adolescent conflict resolution self-efficacy. The second goal of the study is to investigate of gender differences between mother and father regarding the buffering effects of adolescent conflict resolution self-efficacy.
The research recruited 649 high school students as its participants. The results showed that: (1) Regardless of with the mother or father, parent-child conflicts have had negative impacts on adolescent’s satisfaction level of the parent-child relationship. (2) Adolescents with a higher level of conflict resolution self-efficacy are more likely to perceive conflict with a positive opportunity and put more effort in maintaining a harmonious parent-child relationship. (3) In the mother-child conflict condition, it was found that adolescent conflict resolution self-efficacy could moderate the negative effect of conflict frequency on adolescent’s satisfaction level, but in father-child conflict condition, there was no significant moderating effect of the adolescent conflict resolution self-efficacy on the relationship between conflict frequency and the adolescent’s satisfaction level of the relationship.
Subjects
親子衝突解決效能
親子衝突頻率
親子關係滿意度
Type
thesis
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