Department of Youth and Family, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Fam Process. 2022 Mar;61(1):342-360. doi: 10.1111/famp.12648. Epub 2021 Mar 25.
In this multi-informant, longitudinal, daily diary study, we investigated whether long-term dyadic patterns of marital conflict resolution explain the heterogeneity in short-term day-to-day cross-lagged associations between marital conflict intensity and mother-adolescent conflict intensity. The sample consisted of 419 adolescents (44.6% girls, M = 13.02, SD = 0.44, at T1; M = 17.02, SD = 0.44, at T5), their mothers (N = 419, M = 44.48, SD = 4.17, at T1), and their fathers (N = 419, M = 46.76, SD = 4.99, at T1). Mothers and fathers reported on their marital conflict resolution strategies annually across 5 years. Mother-father daily conflict intensity (mother-reported) and mother-adolescent daily conflict intensity (mother- and adolescent-reported) were assessed for 75 days across 5 years. We hypothesized that long-term marital conflict resolution patterns would moderate the short-term daily dynamics of conflict between the marital and the mother-adolescent dyads. Latent Class Growth Analysis revealed four types of families based on long-term dyadic marital conflict resolution, including families where mostly constructive or mostly destructive conflict resolution was used. Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling was used to investigate the daily levels and short-term daily dynamics of conflict, revealing that for most families there were no day-to-day lagged associations between marital conflict and mother-adolescent conflict. Results showed that long-term conflict resolution patterns did not moderate the short-term dynamics of daily conflict. However, differences among long-term marital conflict resolution patterns were found in the levels of daily conflict, such that in families with long-term destructive conflict resolution patterns, daily conflict intensity was higher.
在这项多信息源、纵向、每日日记研究中，我们调查了长期的婚姻冲突解决模式是否解释了短期日常交叉滞后关联中婚姻冲突强度和母子冲突强度之间的异质性。样本由 419 名青少年（44.6%为女孩，T1 时的平均年龄为 13.02，标准差为 0.44；T5 时的平均年龄为 17.02，标准差为 0.44）、他们的母亲（N=419，平均年龄为 44.48，标准差为 4.17，T1 时）和他们的父亲（N=419，平均年龄为 46.76，标准差为 4.99，T1 时）组成。母亲和父亲每年报告他们的婚姻冲突解决策略，共报告 5 年。母亲-父亲每日冲突强度（母亲报告）和母亲-青少年每日冲突强度（母亲和青少年报告）在 5 年内共评估了 75 天。我们假设长期婚姻冲突解决模式会调节婚姻和母子双元体之间冲突的短期日常动态。潜在类别增长分析根据长期二元婚姻冲突解决模式，发现了四种类型的家庭，包括主要使用建设性或破坏性冲突解决模式的家庭。动态结构方程模型用于研究冲突的日常水平和短期日常动态，结果表明，对于大多数家庭，婚姻冲突和母子冲突之间没有日常滞后关联。结果表明，长期冲突解决模式不会调节日常冲突的短期动态。然而，在长期婚姻冲突解决模式中发现了一些差异，即长期破坏性冲突解决模式的家庭中，日常冲突强度较高。
