De relatie tussen de negatieve conflictoplossingsstrategie van ouders en de fysieke agressie van jongens in de adolescentie

Abstract

This study has examined the relationship between negative conflict resolution strategy from parents and the physical aggression of boys in the age from 12 to 14. We expected to find a relation between those two variables. This study is relevant because other studies did not study the relationship between negative conflict resolution strategies from parents and the physical aggression of boys in the age of 12 to 14. This study used quantitative data from a large scale longitudinal study named Conflict and Management of Relationships study (CONAMORE). For this study the family sample was used. The sample consisted of 149 Dutch families with boys aged 12 till 14 years old. Both the parents and the boys filled in questionnaires. The parents filled in a self-report questionnaire about their own conflict resolution strategy and the boys about their own physical aggression behaviour. We found no significant relation between the negative conflict resolution strategy from mothers and fathers and the physical aggression of boys. In three groups of low, medium and high scoring groups of fathers and in three groups of low, medium and high scoring groups of mothers there was also no significant relation between negative conflict resolution strategy and physical aggression.