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Family conflict in divorced and non-divorced families: Potential consequences for boys’ friendship status and friendship quality

Eric W. Lindsey

Texas Tech University, Eric.Lindsey{at}ttu.edu

Malinda J. Colwell

Texas Tech University

James M. Frabutt

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Carol MacKinnon-Lewis

University of South Florida

This study examined associations between family conflict and the quality of boys’ friendships in divorced and non-divorced families. Interviews and self-report measures were completed by 173 boys (Mage = 8.10; 92 Caucasian, 65 African American) and their parents from divorced and non-divorced families. Findings indicated that boys from divorced families had fewer friends, and lower quality friendships, than boys from non-divorced families. Marital conflict was associated with low levels of reasoning in mother-son and sibling-brother relationships in non-divorced families, and low levels of reasoning in father-son relationships in divorced families. Family conflict-resolution strategies mediated connections between marital conflict and the number of boys’ mutual friendships as well as boys’ friendship quality.

Key Words: adolescence • divorce • family conflict • friendship quality • friendship status • parent-child relationships • sibling relationships

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 23, No. 1, 45-63 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407506060177
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