Dynamic Processes of Parent–Adolescent Conflict and Warmth in Chinese Families: Differences between Mothers and Fathers.

Parent-adolescent relationships are shaped by daily interactions that include both warmth and conflict, yet most research has focused on aggregate or long-term patterns rather than their day-to-day fluctuations. Guided by family systems theory, this study examined how mothers and fathers distinctly...

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Publicado en:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 54; no. 8; pp. 1985 - 1999
Autores principales: Luo, Xiaohui, Wang, Hui, Xu, Jianjie, Liu, Hongyun, Suveg, Cynthia, Han, Zhuo Rachel
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Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2025
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          Luo, Xiaohui
          Wang, Hui
          Xu, Jianjie
          Liu, Hongyun
          Suveg, Cynthia
          Han, Zhuo Rachel
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          https://ror.org/022k4wk35 Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, National Virtual Simulation Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
          https://ror.org/022k4wk35 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, China
          https://ror.org/00te3t702 Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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        China
        Family conflict
        Psychology of fathers
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        Parent-child relationships
        Sex distribution
        Parenting
        Teenagers' conduct of life
        Family systems theory
        Psychology of mothers
        Psychology of parents
        Interpersonal relations
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        Descriptive statistics
        Structural equation modeling
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          Family conflict
          Psychology of fathers
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          Sex distribution
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          Psychology of parents
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        Conflict
        Dynamic structural equation modelling
        Family systems
        Parent-adolescent interactions
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        Conflict
        Dynamic structural equation modelling
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      ab: Parent-adolescent relationships are shaped by daily interactions that include both warmth and conflict, yet most research has focused on aggregate or long-term patterns rather than their day-to-day fluctuations. Guided by family systems theory, this study examined how mothers and fathers distinctly contribute to daily parent-adolescent warmth and conflict, as well as how these interactions vary across families. The sample consisted of 307 Chinese adolescents (M = 13.02 years, SD = 0.762 years; 49.51% girls). Participants reported their daily perceptions of warmth and conflict with both their mothers and fathers over a 10-day period. Dynamic structural equation modeling showed significant autoregressive effects for mother- and father-adolescent warmth and conflict. Cross-lagged analyses revealed that higher levels of mother-adolescent conflict, higher levels of father-adolescent warmth, and lower levels of father-adolescent conflict predicted increased mother-adolescent warmth the following day. Additionally, greater father-adolescent conflict predicted greater mother-adolescent conflict the next day. Within-family effects varied in both direction and magnitude across families and some lagged effects were moderated by adolescent age and family income. Overall, these findings emphasize the importance of considering parent gender and family-level variations when examining daily family dynamics. They also suggest that maternal warmth may be especially sensitive to the family's daily relational experiences, highlighting the need for parenting practices and interventions that acknowledge and address this responsiveness.
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