Parent and teenager--Cross-cultural studies

Adolescence is a period of significant changes in relationships with mothers,
specifically parent-adolescent conflict increases from childhood into adulthood. The
present investigation is designed to address these differences by using adolescent and
mother reports of conflict and relationship quality. The investigation addresses four
research questions. (1) Do characteristics of conflict with mothers differ for adolescents
with and without clinical problems? (2) Do perceptions of mother-child relationship
quality differ for adolescents with and without clinical problems? (3) Do family
characteristics moderate differences between clinical and nonclinical youth in motherchild
of conflict? (4) Do family characteristics moderate differences between clinical and
nonclinical youth in mother-child relationship quality? The results demonstrated that the
clinical group reported more conflicts, greater affect, and less post-conflict interaction
than those of the nonclinical group. The clinical group reported higher negativity than the nonclinical group. In addition, levels of positivity were higher for the nonclinical
group than for the clinical group.