NCJ Number
155560
Journal
Child Abuse and Neglect Volume: 19 Issue: 6 Dated: (June 1995) Pages: 681- 689
Date Published
1995
Length
9 pages
Annotation
Using the Conflict Tactics Scale, 96 high school students at the University Lab School in Honolulu, Hawaii, reported their own behavior and the behavior of their parents in the resolution of conflicts during the previous year.
Abstract
The participants were all in the 11th and 12th grades. A series of orthogonal contrasts were used to compare parent-teen aggression levels for Americans of European, Japanese, Polynesian, and Filipino ancestry. Results revealed that the adolescent children of Polynesian American parents reported significantly higher parent aggression levels than did adolescents with parents of other ethnicity. Parent aggression was also the best predictor of teen aggression directed toward parents. The participants reciprocated with counteraggression toward European American parents significantly more often than toward parents of other ethnicity. Aggression by one parent was highly correlated with aggression by the other parent as well. Furthermore, aggression by either parent was more highly correlated with teen aggression toward the mother than with teen aggression toward the father. Tables and 39 references (Author abstract modified)