Examining The Differential Implications of Parental Conflict in Adolescents Community

Abstract

Addressing the aspect of gender differences, the current study tried to investigate the parental quarrel and teenage resilience. One of the personality characteristics that enable individuals to cope with stresses was hardiness, the objective of the research was to find out the perceived hardiness and conflict between the parents and to define the relationship between hardiness and parental conflict. A comparative and correlational approach was used as the quantitative study design. The random sampling was done by taking a sample of 120 teenagers (60boys and 60 girls) between the ages of 12 and 18. The use of Children Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC) helped to measure parental conflict, and the Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS-15) helped to measure hardiness with no recognizable gender difference in the outcomes of the independent samples t-test. Nevertheless, gender discrepancies were significant in all areas of parental warfare. Females compared to males scored higher in terms of frequency, intensity, resolution, child content and triangulation according to negative mean differences, and parental conflict and hardiness were both positively correlated according to correlation analysis. It means that the rates of hardiness among adolescents increase proportionally to the perceived conflict with parents. Comprehensively, an overall version of the results is that as much as there exists gender differences in perception of parental conflict, hardiness is not a gender-specific trait and is moderately related to higher levels of perceived parental conflict among this population.