Within‐family conflict behaviors as predictors of conflict in adolescent romantic relations

Continuity in conflict behaviors from (a) adolescents’ behavior with parents and their behavior with romantic partners and (b) from parents’ marriage to adolescents’ romantic relationships were examined in a sample of 58 mother–father–adolescent families and the adolescents’ romantic partners. The social relations model was used to analyze within‐family reports of own and partner conflict behavior. Mother–father consensus about adolescents’ use...