Relationship with parents as a choice factor for adolescents’ behavioral strategy in conflicts

The article investigates the relationship between parental attitudes in the adolescent’s perception and their choice of behavioral strategies in conflicts. It is deemed that in conflicts, adolescents’ strategies of rivalry and avoidance prevail, and the least expressed strategy is the strategy of cooperation. Parents’ educational strategy of authoritarian hypersocialization type increases the probability of adolescents’ choice of rivalry strategy in conflicts and reduces the prospect of choosing cooperation strategy. Parental attitudes of the type of underestimating the importance of interests, feelings and hobbies of adolescents increases the likelihood of using the strategy of avoidance, escape from problems. Symbiosis-type relationships increase the likelihood that adolescents will choose an adaptation strategy in conflict. On the contrary, relationships with parents according to the type of acceptance and cooperation contribute to the fact that adolescents in conflict situations tend to choose strategies of search for compromise, mutual agreements, cooperation.