Negotiating conflict in healthy ways is key to adolescents’ social functioning. This paper examines interpersonal negotiation strategies (INS) (a developmental framework for navigating conflict) across three different contexts (friend, romantic, and parent) in a sample of 212 Canadian mid‐adolescents. Adolescents were asked how they would deal with a hypothetical conflict in each context. Adolescents were most advanced at negotiating conflict in the friend context, followed by parent and romantic contexts; negotiation skills were worst in the romantic context. Girls demonstrated a higher level of INS than boys, but only with friends. These results indicate the need for universal healthy relationship programs that support the development of conflict negotiation skills, especially within the new interpersonal context of romantic relationships.

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青少年的人际谈判策略：能力是否因环境而异？

以健康的方式解决冲突是青少年社会功能的关键。本文以 212 名加拿大中青年为样本，研究了三种不同背景（朋友、浪漫和父母）下的人际谈判策略 (INS)（一种处理冲突的发展框架）。青少年被问及他们将如何处理每种情况下的假设冲突。青少年最擅长在朋友环境中谈判冲突，其次是父母和浪漫环境；在浪漫的环境中，谈判技巧最差。女孩比男孩表现出更高水平的 INS，但仅限于与朋友。这些结果表明，需要支持发展冲突谈判技巧的普遍健康的关系计划，尤其是在新的浪漫关系的人际关系环境中。