ABSTRACT

The proliferation of communication technologies provides channel choices to supplement or substitute face-to-face parent-adolescent conflict. Using social information-processing models as a foundation, this study examined the frequency of text-based and voice-based mediated channels to navigate conflict between parents and adolescents as a function of cognitive beliefs about, affective reactions to, and behavioral preferences for conflict. One hundred and seventy-six parents and paired adolescents completed measures assessing the variables of interest. The results and discussion illuminate how individuals’ schemata for conflict influence preferences for conflict style and the frequency of text-based and voice-based mediated conflict communication.

摘要

通信技术的激增提供了渠道选择，以补充或替代面对面的父母与青少年之间的冲突。这项研究以社会信息处理模型为基础，考察了基于文本和基于语音的渠道来引导父母与青少年之间的冲突的频率，这是对冲突的认知信念，情感反应和行为偏好的函数。176个父母和成对的青少年完成了评估兴趣变量的措施。结果和讨论阐明了个人的冲突图式如何影响对冲突风格的偏好以及基于文本和基于语音的调解冲突交流的频率。