Psychological factors of conflicts in young families.

Purpose. Our study was an attempt to explore the specifics of marital conflict in a young family. This goal included solving the following tasks: to conduct a psychological study of the causes of marital conflicts in a young family, on the basis of empirical data to carry out quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results. Methods. To achieve this goal, the theoretical method of analysis of literature sources on this issue was used, the empirical method was to conduct research on such diagnostic meth-ods as: Methods of diagnosing the propensity of the individual to conflict K. Thomas; Methods of “Distribution of roles in the family” (Yu.E. Alyoshin, L.Ya. Gozman, E.M. Dubovska); Wiesbaden ques-tionnaire developed by N. Pezeshkian. Results. 33% of the surveyed married couples in conflict situations show competitive behavior, one of the spouses tries, first of all, to satisfy their own interests, not taking into account the interests of others, encouraging them to accept their own solutions to problems. In 16% of the studied cou-ples we observe evasion of the conflict situation. This style is used by couples when the problem they are dealing with is not very important to the person, when she does not want to spend energy on solving it, or when she feels that she is in a hopeless situation. 16% of couples in conflict try to adapt to it. This means that a person acts in harmony with another, without trying to defend their own interests. The style of the device may resemble evasion. In six pairs (which is 35% of respondents) there is no conflict. Thus, among the surveyed married couples, we observe the presence of conflict in 66% of couples, which means that both members of these couples act in the same way to resolve conflict situations and therefore their conflict situation is likely to flare up more than subside. Summarizing the results of the Wiesbaden Questionnaire, which allowed us to diagnose areas of constant emotional stress in families, it should be noted that most conflicts in the studied young families arise over justice, which we see in 83% of respondents. The rarest cause of marital conflicts in a young family is a significant difference in the severity of such behavioral norms: accuracy, courtesy, sincerity, humility, hope, faith, imagination, neatness. The method of division of roles in the family showed that the role of raising children is the most inconsistent. In 66% of the couples studied, conflicts arise due to inconsistencies in roles such as entertainment, sexual partner and family subculture organizer. The role of the person responsible for the material support of the family, according to our study, is uncoor-dinated in half of married couples (50% of respondents). Conclusions. The study found that most conflicts in young families arise due to inconsistencies between partners in such ways and forms of behav-ior as: establishing contacts, there are also contradictions about professional motives, feelings, trust in each other, frugality, courtesy, tenderness, sexuality and love.