Do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?

Numerous studies have shown that being able to resolve and recover from conflicts is of key importance for relationship satisfaction and stability in adults. Less is known about the importance of these relationship dynamics in adolescent romantic relationships. Therefore, this study investigated whe...

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Autores principales: Thao Ha, Geertjan Overbeek, Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff, Rutger C M E Engels
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:defd999374ed4d12a435d586e4c3d7292021-11-18T07:49:00ZDo conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0061871https://doaj.org/article/defd999374ed4d12a435d586e4c3d7292013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23613960/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Numerous studies have shown that being able to resolve and recover from conflicts is of key importance for relationship satisfaction and stability in adults. Less is known about the importance of these relationship dynamics in adolescent romantic relationships. Therefore, this study investigated whether conflict resolution and recovery predict breakups in middle adolescent couples. Couples who are able to resolve and recover from conflict were expected to demonstrate a lower probability of breaking up. In total, 80 adolescent couples (M age = 15.48, SD = 1.16) participated in a 4-wave prospective questionnaire and observational study, with one year between measurements. In addition to self-report measures, adolescents were observed in real-time during conflicts with their partners. Multilevel Proportional Hazard analyses revealed that, contrary to the hypothesis, conflict resolution and conflict recovery did not predict the likelihood of breakup. Survival differences were not attributable to conflict resolution or conflict recovery. More research is needed to consider the unique relationship factors of adolescent romantic relationships to determine why some relationships survive while others do not.Thao HaGeertjan OverbeekAnna Lichtwarck-AschoffRutger C M E EngelsPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 4, p e61871 (2013)
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Thao Ha
Geertjan Overbeek
Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
Rutger C M E Engels
Do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?
description Numerous studies have shown that being able to resolve and recover from conflicts is of key importance for relationship satisfaction and stability in adults. Less is known about the importance of these relationship dynamics in adolescent romantic relationships. Therefore, this study investigated whether conflict resolution and recovery predict breakups in middle adolescent couples. Couples who are able to resolve and recover from conflict were expected to demonstrate a lower probability of breaking up. In total, 80 adolescent couples (M age = 15.48, SD = 1.16) participated in a 4-wave prospective questionnaire and observational study, with one year between measurements. In addition to self-report measures, adolescents were observed in real-time during conflicts with their partners. Multilevel Proportional Hazard analyses revealed that, contrary to the hypothesis, conflict resolution and conflict recovery did not predict the likelihood of breakup. Survival differences were not attributable to conflict resolution or conflict recovery. More research is needed to consider the unique relationship factors of adolescent romantic relationships to determine why some relationships survive while others do not.
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author Thao Ha
Geertjan Overbeek
Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
Rutger C M E Engels
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title Do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?
title_short Do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?
title_full Do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?
title_fullStr Do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?
title_full_unstemmed Do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?
title_sort do conflict resolution and recovery predict the survival of adolescents' romantic relationships?
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