Ritical Review
Reese-Weber, M. & Bartle-Haring, S. (1998). Conflict resolution styles in family subsystems and adolescent romantic relationships. Journal of Youth Adolescence, 27, 735-752.
Introduction
Many studies confirm that an individual’s patterns of conflict resolution, both positive and negative, can develop from their family of origin and be generalized to how conflict is managed in other relationships (O’Leary, 1988; Patterson, Reid, & Dishion, 1992; Rubenstein and Feldman, 1993).
The purpose of this study by Reese-Weber & Bartle-Haring, was to examine how related are conflict resolution styles within family subsystems and how conflict resolution styles within the family are related to conflict resolution styles in one relationship outside the family, identified as adolescents’ romantic relationships. Based on previous research, the researchers submitted their hypotheses. Through a sample of convenience by means of a 22-item questionnaire, 217 late adolescents, 144 females and 73 males, reported their perceptions of resolution styles used in interparent, mother-adolescent, father-adolescent, sibling, and romantic-couple conflicts. Path analyses, based on 163 cases with complete data, revealed both direct and indirect relationships between and among these dyads.
In this critical review, I will reflect on how the researchers attempted to link family to non-family resolution styles and what could have been done better. Through a quantitative study, with strengths and limitations, backed by a nauseating result reporting and an amount of highlighted literature, the researchers extend existing contribution and set the ball rolling for more expanded research to take place in the field of conflict resolution styles, even though the participants’ narrative is missing.
Article Analysis
Featuring in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 27, No. 6, 1998, the research paper’s title, Conflict resolution styles in family subsystems and adolescent romantic
Introduction
Many studies confirm that an individual’s patterns of conflict resolution, both positive and negative, can develop from their family of origin and be generalized to how conflict is managed in other relationships (O’Leary, 1988; Patterson, Reid, & Dishion, 1992; Rubenstein and Feldman, 1993).
The purpose of this study by Reese-Weber & Bartle-Haring, was to examine how related are conflict resolution styles within family subsystems and how conflict resolution styles within the family are related to conflict resolution styles in one relationship outside the family, identified as adolescents’ romantic relationships. Based on previous research, the researchers submitted their hypotheses. Through a sample of convenience by means of a 22-item questionnaire, 217 late adolescents, 144 females and 73 males, reported their perceptions of resolution styles used in interparent, mother-adolescent, father-adolescent, sibling, and romantic-couple conflicts. Path analyses, based on 163 cases with complete data, revealed both direct and indirect relationships between and among these dyads.
In this critical review, I will reflect on how the researchers attempted to link family to non-family resolution styles and what could have been done better. Through a quantitative study, with strengths and limitations, backed by a nauseating result reporting and an amount of highlighted literature, the researchers extend existing contribution and set the ball rolling for more expanded research to take place in the field of conflict resolution styles, even though the participants’ narrative is missing.
Article Analysis
Featuring in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 27, No. 6, 1998, the research paper’s title, Conflict resolution styles in family subsystems and adolescent romantic
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