Whittaker S, Bry B H
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855.
Adolescence. 1991 Winter;26(104):865-76.
When adolescents behave in socially unacceptable ways, overt interparental conflict is widely held to be the cause. Empirical studies, however, have been inconsistent in supporting this assumption. Some researchers therefore have speculated that covert conflict also plays a role. In the current observational study, evidence was found that both overt parental conflict and some forms of covert conflict play roles. During problem-solving family discussions, parents of adolescents whom they had brought into an outpatient clinic for treatment overtly disagreed with each other significantly more often than did parents with adolescents who did not require treatment. Families of clinic adolescents also exhibited significantly more silence during their discussions, and mothers spent significantly less time talking than did their nonclinic counterparts. The implications that both the overt and covert conflict may have for adolescent behavior are discussed.
当青少年表现出社会不可接受的行为时，人们普遍认为公开的父母间冲突是原因所在。然而，实证研究在支持这一假设方面并不一致。因此，一些研究人员推测，隐性冲突也起了作用。在当前的观察性研究中，发现公开的父母冲突和某些形式的隐性冲突都发挥了作用。在解决问题的家庭讨论中，带青少年到门诊治疗的父母比不需要治疗的青少年的父母明显更频繁地公开相互不同意。门诊青少年的家庭在讨论中也表现出明显更多的沉默，而且母亲说话的时间比非门诊青少年家庭的母亲明显更少。文中讨论了公开和隐性冲突可能对青少年行为产生的影响。
