The Relationship between Conflict Resolution Techniques Experienced in the Family of Origin and Couples’ Communication Patterns: The Mediating Role of Anger Rumination

Najafi, Neda; Shahamat Dehsorkh, Fatemeh; Zamani Vosta Kolaei, Seyedeh Maryam

doi:10.48308/jfr.2025.235252.1732

The Relationship between Conflict Resolution Techniques Experienced in the Family of Origin and Couples’ Communication Patterns: The Mediating Role of Anger Rumination

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

Neda Najafi ¹

Fatemeh Shahamat Dehsorkh ²

seyedeh maryam zamani vosta kolaei ¹

¹ Department of Psychology, Khayyam University, Mashhad, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of humanities, Khayyam University, Mashhad, Iran.

10.48308/jfr.2025.235252.1732

Abstract

According to object relation theories, a person builds an internal pattern based on his relations with primary objects, which guides his current relations. In this way, unresolved psychological conflicts with the main family continue to manifest in the future intimate relations. Aimed to investigate the mechanism of this transgender transition, this study has examined the mediating role of anger rumination in the relationship between parent-child conflict resolution tactics and couples' communication patterns. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The sample of 300 married adult (49.5% women) filled three scales of Strauss's parent-child conflict resolution tactics, Christensen's and Sulaway's couple communication patterns, and Sokhodolosky's rumination. Data analysis using path analysis confirmed the mediating role of anger rumination in the relationship between parent-child conflict resolution tactics and couples' communication patterns. There is a positive and significant relationship between parents' aggression and the amount of children's rumination and the use of incompatible communication patterns in relation to their emotional partners, as well as between the amount of children's rumination and the choice of these incompatible communication patterns. Therefore, the use of aggressive conflict resolution tactics by parents increases the probability of creating Rumination in children increases the possibility of them using unhealthy communication patterns.

Keywords

Parent’s conflict resolution tactics

couples communication patterns

anger rumination

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