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    Dev Psychol. 2007 May;43(3):539-50.

    Conflict frequency with mothers and fathers from middle childhood to late adolescence: within- and between-families comparisons.

    Shanahan L, McHale SM, Osgood DW, Crouter AC.

    Carolina Consortium on Human Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8115, USA. lilly_shanahan@unc.edu

    The authors examined siblings' dyadic and differential conflict frequency with mothers and fathers from 7 to 19 years of age. Participants were first- and second-borns from 201 families who reported their conflict with each parent in 4 home interviews spaced over 5 years. Multilevel models examining trajectories of conflict frequency across age and year of study revealed that (a) consistent with a spillover hypothesis, elevation in parent-offspring conflict frequency was timed to firstborns' transition to adolescence for both siblings; and (b) consistent with a learning-from-experience hypothesis, there was no increase in conflict frequency at second-borns' transition to adolescence. These findings highlight the importance of studying the development of parent-offspring conflict within the larger family system. Copyright (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved.

    PMID: 17484569 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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