Department of Educational Psychology and Personality Development, Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
J Youth Adolesc. 2024 Jul;53(7):1630-1645. doi: 10.1007/s10964-024-01951-6. Epub 2024 Feb 24.
Conflict frequency in adolescence has been linked to personality and relationship-specific features. However, an integrative investigation of both aspects is lacking. To address this gap, this study used data from 571 individuals in middle adolescence (Study 1; Mage = 15.86, SD = 1.23; 75.8% female) and 233 individuals in late adolescence (Study 2; Mage = 17.17, SD = 1.01; 75.5% female) in Germany, including participants' self-reports on conflict frequency and other-reports provided by parents and peers. Across studies, multigroup models revealed that adolescents' level of neuroticism predicted self- and other-perceived conflict frequency in parent and peer relationships more consistently than agreeableness, while providing no evidence for an interplay between both personality traits. Furthermore, relationship-specific features differentially accounted for individual differences in conflict frequency across relationship types, such that in adolescents' relationships with parents, lower relationship quality related to more frequent conflicts. In peer relationships, higher contact frequency was linked to more frequent conflicts. The present findings highlight the contributions of both personality and relationship-specific features to conflict frequency in adolescence and offer practical guidance for the improvement of adolescents' and their relationship partners' social skills and experiences. All research questions, hypotheses, and analyses of this research were preregistered at the OSF and can be retrieved from: https://osf.io/xmvqd/ .
青少年时期的冲突频率与个性和关系特定特征有关。然而，缺乏对这两个方面的综合研究。为了解决这一差距，本研究使用了来自德国 571 名青少年中期（研究 1；Mage=15.86，SD=1.23；75.8%女性）和 233 名青少年后期（研究 2；Mage=17.17，SD=1.01；75.5%女性）的数据，包括参与者对冲突频率的自我报告以及父母和同伴提供的其他报告。在两项研究中，多组模型表明，青少年的神经质水平比宜人性更一致地预测了他们在父母和同伴关系中的自我和他人感知的冲突频率，而没有提供这两个个性特征相互作用的证据。此外，关系特定特征在不同程度上解释了个体在不同关系类型中的冲突频率差异，例如，在青少年与父母的关系中，较低的关系质量与更频繁的冲突有关。在同伴关系中，更高的接触频率与更频繁的冲突有关。本研究结果强调了个性和关系特定特征对青少年时期冲突频率的贡献，并为提高青少年及其关系伙伴的社交技能和经验提供了实际指导。本研究的所有研究问题、假设和分析都在 OSF 上进行了预先注册，可以从以下网址检索到：https://osf.io/xmvqd/。
