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Subject: Human Development and Family Studies × Author: Bagga, Ishina × Start date: 1968 ×
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    Value Conflicts and Resolution Strategies to Improve Parent- Adolescent Relationship
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Bagga, Ishina; Saini, Sarita
    The present study was undertaken to investigate the patterns of values and value conflicts between parents and adolescents, to explore the parent-adolescent relationship and use of conflict resolution strategies by parents and their children. The sample comprised of 300 respondents; 100 school going adolescents equally distributed over gender (50 each) and their parents (fathers=100 and mothers=100) selected randomly from two schools of Ludhiana city. A self-designed Personal Information Sheet, Personal Values Questionnaire (Sherry & Verma 1971), Parent-Child Relationship Scale (Rao 2001) and a self-structured Conflict Resolution Strategies Questionnaire were used to collect relevant information for the study. The results revealed that parents valued religion and health more whereas adolescents reported greater preference for economic and hedonistic values. However, majority of adolescents perceived their parents to be highly protective, loving, moderately indifferent, symbolic punishment giving, low rejecting as well as object punishment giving. Adolescents perceived their mothers to be symbolically more punitive and loving than their fathers. Sons as compared to daughters perceived parents to be more demanding and object punishment giving. Analysis of conflict resolution strategies revealed that mothers were found to be more ‘collaborative’ than fathers in dealing with their sons in a conflict situation and daughters were more ‘collaborative’ than sons with both fathers as well as mothers. Nevertheless, daughters used ‘avoiding’ technique more with their fathers than with mothers. ‘Collaborative’ strategy was found to be the most effective conflict resolution technique in enhancing parent-child relationship and ‘avoiding’ technique was found to be negatively associated with the positive dimensions of parent-child relationship.