Context-Specific Use of Conflict Management Strategies in Adolescent Dating Relationships: A Daily Study on Attachment, Hostile Attributions, and Stress

ConclusionsResults support the relevance of examining situational variations in risk factors and suggest that daily stress might be a mobilizing factor for conflict resolution. Programs aimed at promoting day-to-day healthy relationships should target decreasing hostile attributions and both anxious and avoidant attachment-related thoughts.

Source: Journal of Family Violence - May 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research