Adolescent-Reported Interparental Conflict and Related Emotional-Behavioral Difficulties: The Mediating Role of Psychological Inflexibility.

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Pediatric Reports Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI:10.3390/pediatric17020033

Ludovica Giani, Cecilia Amico, Chiara Crepaldi, Marcella Caputi, Simona Scaini, Giovanni Michelini, Barbara Forresi

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Abstract

Background/objectives: Interparental conflict, with its multiple dimensions, represents a risk factor for youth mental health, triggering a series of cascading processes. Despite recent evidence highlighting that psychological inflexibility is a risk factor for adolescents' psychopathology after stressful events, a limited number of studies have investigated its role in family conflicts. This study aims to investigate whether psychological inflexibility mediates the impact of conflict characteristics (intensity, frequency, and resolution) and threat appraisal of interparental conflict on the psychological difficulties of adolescent offspring.

Methods: A sample of 195 adolescents aged between 15 and 19 years old completed the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, and the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth on Google Forms.

Results: The findings revealed that adolescents living in a family environment characterized by high levels of perceived interparental conflicts exhibit a wide spectrum of psychological difficulties, either emotional or behavioral, partially mediated by their psychological inflexibility. However, when conflict between parents is interpreted as threatening, adolescents' inflexibility appears to mediate the relationship between conflict and psychological difficulties.

Conclusions: While future studies are needed to better understand this association, psychological flexibility might represent a relevant treatment target in adolescents exposed to interparental conflict.

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青少年报告的父母冲突与相关情绪行为困难：心理不灵活性的中介作用。

背景/目的：父母间冲突具有多重维度，是影响青少年心理健康的一个风险因素，引发一系列连锁反应。尽管最近的证据强调心理不灵活性是压力事件后青少年精神病理的一个风险因素，但有限数量的研究调查了其在家庭冲突中的作用。本研究旨在探讨心理不灵活性是否在冲突特征（强度、频率和解决）和父母间冲突威胁评价对青少年后代心理困难的影响中起中介作用。方法：选取195名15 ~ 19岁的青少年，用谷歌表格填写《儿童父母冲突感知量表》、《优势与困难问卷》和《青少年回避与融合问卷》。结果：研究发现，生活在高水平父母间冲突的家庭环境中的青少年表现出广泛的心理困难，无论是情绪上的还是行为上的，这些困难部分是由他们的心理不灵活性介导的。然而，当父母之间的冲突被解释为威胁时，青少年的不灵活性似乎调解了冲突与心理困难之间的关系。结论：虽然未来的研究需要更好地理解这种关联，但心理灵活性可能是暴露于父母间冲突的青少年的相关治疗目标。

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