The Relation Between Adolescents’ Intent Attribution of Parental Verbal Disciplines and Parent-Adolescent Conflict Coping Strategy

• Main Authors: WANG, HSU-FAN, 汪緒藩
• Other Authors: CHEN, KUN-HU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a6xpa8

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 臨床心理學系碩士班 === 106 === The study aims at exploring the relationships between intent attribution of parental verbal disciplines and parent-adolescent conflict coping strategies of senior high school students. Previous researches suggest that the function of parent-adolescent conflict is dependent on whether adolescents are capable of showing constructive conflict coping strategies when it comes to a disagreement between them and their parents. Also, constructive conflict coping strategies have positive influences on declining the frequency of parent-adolescent conflicts, improving parent-adolescent relationship, and enhancing adolescents’ psychosocial development. Parent-adolescent conflicts often appear in parents’ verbal disciplining in ethnic Chinese society. Previous researches show that the intention of parents’ verbal discipline and adolescents’ attribution toward it doesn’t always end up on the same page, which may lead to the conflict’s getting stronger. As a result, it is important to understand whether the intent attribution of parental verbal discipline is the main resource that influences adolescents’ displaying of different conflict coping strategies. The study adopted the methods of survey research, using “The Questionnaire in Attributions of Parents’ Verbal Intentions” and “The Questionnaire in Parent-Adolescent Conflict Coping Strategies”. There were 307 students from two different senior high schools (from grade 10 to grade 12) in Taipei city and New Taipei city participated in the study. The data was analyzed by using Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression analysis. After controlling for background variables, the results suggested that “my father/mother is supportive/encouraging of me” was the strongest predictor of cooperative coping strategies, and “my father/mother is dissatisfied with me” was the strongest predictor of avoiding coping strategies. Also, the role of father and mother influent the prediction from other intent attributions to other coping strategies differently. In generally, the study point out that the intentional attribution of verbal discipline has a certain degree of influence on adolescents when it comes to the developing of specific parent-adolescent conflict coping strategies. Based on the results, this study is expected to offer psychotherapy, consulting, and health education to professional workers, counseling teachers and parents when adolescents and other family members are facing the problem of parent-adolescent conflicts in this stage.