Conflict and Construction---The interaction and meaning construction on parent-adolescent conflict

• Main Authors: Shu-Hua Yu, 游淑華
• Other Authors: Shu-Chu Chao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62610303521265854828

博士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 輔導與諮商學系所 === 94 === Based on the narrative analysis, this study has addressed three main points, which are 1) the interaction context, 2) the construction of meaning, and 3) the contextual meaning constructed by conflict, for prolonged conflict in parent-adolescent family. There are two parent-adolescent families recruited in this study. After interacting with the both families and then getting familiar with for over half year, the researcher focused on one family first, and interviewed with all family members individually, then proceeded the same way to the other family. After data analysis, the researcher has sketched out the phenomenon of “dual-circularity” for explaining the construction of parent-adolescent conflict. As for the dual-circularity in parent-adolescent conflict, it contains interactive circularity which arises in the front and comprehensive circularity which occurs in the latter. However, it doesn’t matter which circularity is in the front or latter since the interaction between both would occur no matter how. This study has shown that parent-adolescent conflict is relative to character shaping and flexibility of family members; meanwhile, the conflict would usually reveal the invisible family issues, which might be concluded to the doubtful result, and the conflict sequentially becomes the important part of family life since this family is constrained by those rigid interactive sequence and sluggish information input. However, for the natively survival needs, the family would get started the process of “deconstruction-reconstruction”, which includes interactive sequence realignment, information changing, access to family system, and insistence on family values, and those would affect each other then activate the power to reduce the conflict, but even then, the family conflict is still possibly triggered by another event, and then reactivate interactive circularity. Moreover, the interactive circularity would activate the comprehensive circularity. this study has argued the parent-adolescent relationship is make of co-construction from the two parties, both of which would get higher knowledge of the relationship itself through interaction and conflict between parent and adolescent. As the family conflict re-occurs, it won’t just happen like the way it was, it would develop the different features with new comprehension within conflict process. Hence, the parent-adolescent conflict has the distinguishing characteristic of helical circularity, which would lead the family to attain the second-order changes. In the process of comprehensive circularity, each subsystem in family has different way to enrich and construct the meaning of the conflict itself. As for the parent subsystem, the meaning of conflict is developed via reconstruction family values, accommodation with the parent-adolescent cooperation, acceptance their children really are and their decisions while early marriage. As for the parent-adolescent subsystem, the meaning of conflict is developed via reconstructing their connection, transforming the hierarchical structure, and how the information passing forward. As for the offspring subsystem, the meaning of conflict is significantly developed via aware of own power in relationship, build up their own world outside family, and strengthening the offspring alliance. After all, as for the overall family system, the meaning of conflict is developed via exploring all the different point of views on conflict, then putting all of them together to agglomerate the agreement and to discover the new meaning for family conflict. Furthermore, this study has shown the construction on family conflict is connected to three elements: distance, occasion, and social around, no matter how the interactive and comprehensive circularity develop within. The more importance is that the dual-circularity is irreversible trend, which means the family conflict itself never recovers to the way it was but would develop to the different way. The family features here and now are always different from the moment there and then or even to the very beginning. Therefore, with recurrent deconstruction and reconstruction, the family might become more complicated, diversiform, and also accommodating in this changing environment.