Training Parents to Mediate Sibling Disputes Affects Children's Negotiation and Conflict Understanding

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Julie; Ross, Hildy
Titel	Training Parents to Mediate Sibling Disputes Affects Children's Negotiation and Conflict Understanding
Quelle	In: Child Development, 78 (2007) 3, S.790-805 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01033.x
Schlagwörter	Siblings; Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Children; Parent Education; Social Cognition; Interpersonal Competence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sibling; Geschwister; Konflikt; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Soziale Kognition; Interpersonale Kompetenz
Abstract	The effects of training parents to use formal mediation procedures in sibling disputes were examined in 48 families with 5- to 10-years-old children, randomly assigned to mediation and control conditions. Children whose parents were trained in mediation were compared with those whose parents intervened normally. Parents reported that children used more constructive conflict resolution strategies, compromised more often, and controlled the outcomes of conflicts more often in mediation families than in control families. Observations indicated less negativity in children's independent negotiations of recurrent conflicts, better understanding of the role of interpretation in assessing blame, and better knowledge of their siblings' perspectives in the mediation group. Thus, both social and social-cognitive gains resulted from experience with constructive conflict resolution. (Contains 4 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10