Strategy of avoidance coping with a social conflict situation by adolescents – family implications

Abstract

The goal of the study was to assess parental attitudes and the model of parents’ responses to a social conflict situation in generating an avoidance coping strategy by adolescents. The Parental Attitudes Scale (SPR) by Mieczysław Plopa, the Questionnaire on parents’ strategies for coping with a social conflict situation (KSRwSK) by Danuta Borecka-Biernat, and the Questionnaire to study adolescents’ strategies for coping with a social conflict situation (KSMK) by Danuta Borecka-Biernat were used. The study was carried out in junior high schools. It covered 893 adolescents (468 girls and 425 boys) at the of age of 13–15. Data analysis showed that among family conditions of the adolescents’ avoidant reacting to the emotional tension arising in a conflict situation, incorrect upbringing attitudes of parents towards adolescent children and providing a parental model of avoidance coping with a social conflict situation had a significant influence.