Abstract
Younger and older adolescents were interviewed about their goals in recent disagreements with their mothers. Six goals were identified: instrumental (simply gaining their immediate desire); dyadic concern; achieving emotional support; autonomy; dominance; and nonengagement (avoidance of conflict). Younger adolescents reported significantly more instrumental and significantly fewer emotional support and dominance goals than did older adolescents. Maternal perspective-taking predicted more dyadic concern and fewer dominance goals, as well as more nonengagement goals for younger adolescents. Dominance goals mediated the effect of maternal dyadic perspective-taking on conflict intensity for older adolescents.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 555-571 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Research on Adolescence |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2008 |