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Conflict and Temporal and Relational Spillover of Conflict in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Impact of Interparental and Parent-Child Relationships

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2011, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
This project advanced previous research on romantic relationship conflict through the use of cross-informant data and daily diary methodology to examine conflict frequency and intensity. Additionally, this project extended findings to temporal spillover and relational spillover of conflict. Based on an ecological systems framework, I examined the importance of individual (internalizing and externalizing problems), relationship (conflict resolution tactics, attachment behavior, relationship satisfaction) and interparental and parent-child relationship (conflict resolution tactics) factors in understanding conflict in young adult romantic relationships. Cross-informant cross-sectional and daily diary data from 82 couples in romantic relationships during young adulthood informed the results. Relationship physical assault, anxious attachment and satisfaction predicted conflict frequency, while psychological aggression, negotiation, avoidant attachment and satisfaction predicted conflict intensity. Additionally, most interparental and few parent-child conflict resolution strategies emerged as salient predictors of conflict frequency and intensity, with parental gender differences evident. Many of these predictors also demonstrated crossover effects to temporal and relational spillover of conflict.
Manfred van Dulmen, PhD (Committee Chair)
Beth Wildman, PhD (Committee Member)
Janis Crowther, PhD (Committee Member)
Claire Draucker, PhD (Committee Member)
Will Kalkhoff, PhD (Committee Member)
297 p.

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  • Goncy, E. A. (2011). Conflict and Temporal and Relational Spillover of Conflict in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Impact of Interparental and Parent-Child Relationships [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310482081

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Goncy, Elizabeth. Conflict and Temporal and Relational Spillover of Conflict in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Impact of Interparental and Parent-Child Relationships. 2011. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310482081.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Goncy, Elizabeth. "Conflict and Temporal and Relational Spillover of Conflict in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Impact of Interparental and Parent-Child Relationships." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310482081

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)