Mother Daughter communication
In my research I did mother-daughter communication because my mom and I don’t have that great of communication so I wanted to find out more about it. In this research they did a study on the content and structure of mother-daughter conflict interactions during early adolescence. I’m obviously not in my adolescence stage still but this still explains the problems and solutions in general.
The aim of this study is to examine conflict management behaviors of daughters and their mothers in conflict interactions. 30 girls and their mothers were observed during conflict and completed measures on several aspects of relationship quality. Found through the interactions was that daughters have a more active role and mothers are more passive. Also mothers perceived more dominance and criticism from daughters and daughters perceived more dominance and less open communication from mothers. Some of the most common things that cause conflict between parent and child are chores, school problems, curfews, and appearance. Daughters who use more positive active behavior and less negative behavior perceived more open communication and dominance from their mothers, but for mothers it was the other way around. Mothers who used more positive active behavior and less negative behavior perceived less open communication and dominance from their daughter. All this suggests that interactions where daughters have a more active role are associated with more reciprocity and equality in exchanges, power and decision making (Collins et al., 1997; Russell et al., 1998). The negative behavior of mothers may indicate that they find it difficult to give the daughter whatever she wants. If the mothers used more compliance behavior they were seen as less critical by the daughter. Mother-daughter conflicts are usually solved according to who has the most “power” in which one party complies with the demands of the other, followed by withdrawal or disengagement (Laursen, 1993; Adams & Laursen,
The aim of this study is to examine conflict management behaviors of daughters and their mothers in conflict interactions. 30 girls and their mothers were observed during conflict and completed measures on several aspects of relationship quality. Found through the interactions was that daughters have a more active role and mothers are more passive. Also mothers perceived more dominance and criticism from daughters and daughters perceived more dominance and less open communication from mothers. Some of the most common things that cause conflict between parent and child are chores, school problems, curfews, and appearance. Daughters who use more positive active behavior and less negative behavior perceived more open communication and dominance from their mothers, but for mothers it was the other way around. Mothers who used more positive active behavior and less negative behavior perceived less open communication and dominance from their daughter. All this suggests that interactions where daughters have a more active role are associated with more reciprocity and equality in exchanges, power and decision making (Collins et al., 1997; Russell et al., 1998). The negative behavior of mothers may indicate that they find it difficult to give the daughter whatever she wants. If the mothers used more compliance behavior they were seen as less critical by the daughter. Mother-daughter conflicts are usually solved according to who has the most “power” in which one party complies with the demands of the other, followed by withdrawal or disengagement (Laursen, 1993; Adams & Laursen,
Cited: Branje, S. T. (2008). Conflict management in mother–daughter interactions in early adolescence. Behaviour, 145(11), 1627-1651. doi:10.1163/156853908786131315