Perceived Interparental Conflict and Early Adolescents' Friendships: The Role of Attachment Security and Emotion Regulation

Autor/inn/en	Schwarz, Beate; Stutz, Melanie; Ledermann, Thomas
Titel	Perceived Interparental Conflict and Early Adolescents' Friendships: The Role of Attachment Security and Emotion Regulation
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41 (2012) 9, S.1240-1252 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-012-9769-4
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Age; Structural Equation Models; Conflict; Friendship; Parent Child Relationship; Adolescents; Behavior Problems; Correlation; Attachment Behavior; Security (Psychology); Self Control; Longitudinal Studies; Regression (Statistics); Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Alter; Lebensalter; Konflikt; Freundschaft; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Korrelation; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Selbstbeherrschung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Rollen
Abstract	Although there is strong evidence for the effect of interparental conflict on adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems, little is known about the effect on the quality of adolescents' relationships. The current study investigates the link between adolescents' friendships and interparental conflict as reported by both parents and adolescents. It considers early adolescents' emotion regulation ability and attachment security as mediators. The analysis is based on a longitudinal study with two waves separated by 12 months. The participants were 180 two-parent families and their adolescent children (50.5% girls), the average age of the latter being 10.61 years (SD = 0.41) at the outset (Time 1). Binomial logistic regression analysis revealed that perceived interparental conflict increased the risk of instability in friendship relationships across the 1-year period. Structural equation modeling analysis indicated that the association between perceived interparental conflict and friendship quality was mediated by emotion regulation and attachment security. The discussion focuses on mechanisms whereby interparental conflict influences early adolescents' friendship relationships. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10