Family members as third parties in dyadic family conflict: strategies, alliances, and outcomes.
Family members as third parties in dyadic family conflict: strategies, alliances, and outcomes.
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家庭成员作为二元家庭冲突中的第三方：策略、联盟和结果。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1988.tb01498.x
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发表时间：
1988
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Cassidy,J
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作者：
Vuchinich,S;Emery,RE;Cassidy,J
系统理论家认为，三元组而不是二元组需要被视为一个基本的互动单位，特别是在冲突事件中。虽然在理论上很吸引人，但对第三方介入二元冲突时所使用的战略和所形成的联盟的描述提出了一些概念和经验上的挑战。在本报告中，一个可靠的系统编码这种第三方参与口头冲突的描述，并用于分析日常的家庭冲突，在晚餐期间观察。一些具体的调查结果的兴趣，包括女孩比男孩更有可能干预所有的家庭纠纷，除了婚姻冲突，母亲和父亲很少站在对方一边时，作为第三方进行干预，第三方的战略最常用的对应的家庭角色：父亲使用权威的策略，母亲使用调解策略，和儿童使用分心。然而，更重要的是记录第三方对二元冲突的影响的一般性调查结果。额外的家庭成员经常加入二元家庭冲突，他们同样有可能试图结束或继续冲突，他们形成联盟的一半左右的时间，他们的干预策略有关的冲突的结果，以及其模式。
Systems theorists have argued that triads rather than dyads need to be considered as a basic interaction unit, particularly in regard to episodes of conflict. While theoretically appealing, the description of the strategies used and alliances formed when third parties intervene in dyadic conflict presents a number of conceptual and empirical challenges. In the present report, a reliable system for coding such third-party participation in verbal conflicts is described and is used to analyze routine family conflicts that were observed during dinner. A number of specific findings of interest are reported, including that girls were more likely than boys to intervene in all family disputes except marital conflicts, that mothers and fathers rarely sided against each other when intervening as third parties, and that the third-party strategies most commonly used corresponded with family roles: fathers used authority strategies, mothers used mediational tactics, and children used distraction. Of greater importance, however, are the general findings that document the influence of third parties on dyadic conflict. Additional family members frequently joined dyadic family conflicts, they were about equally likely to attempt to end or to continue the conflict, they formed alliances about half of the time, and their intervention strategies were related to the outcome of the conflict as well as its patterning.