Table 1.

Mean Ratings of Intensity of Various Conflict Issues and Proportion of Parents and Youths Indicating That an Issue was Conflictual (at Any Level)

	Mother Ratings		Youth Ratings		Selected Topic
Issue	Mean^a	Proportion Selecting as an Issue	Mean^a	Proportion Selecting as an Issue	Proportion of Dyads: 1st Topic	Proportion of Dyads: 2nd Topic^b
Cleaning/chores	2.94	0.93	2.26	0.83	0.35	0.18
How family is getting along	2.31	0.72	2.32	0.76	0.20	0.17
Respect/manners	2.13	0.68	1.51	0.60	0.10	0.14
School issues	1.71	0.54	1.71	0.70	0.13	0.13
Use of free time	1.43	0.52	1.33	0.53	0.06	0.09
Appearance/health	1.47	0.56	1.09	0.49	0.04	0.09
Family rules	1.31	0.48	1.37	0.56	0.06	0.06
Supervision of youths	1.01	0.40	1.39	0.50	0.02	0.05
Money	0.87	0.38	1.48	0.64	0.03	0.02
Making noise	0.70	0.32	1.10	0.46	0.01	0.04
Friends and dating	0.42	0.26	0.82	0.40	0.00	0.02
Smoking or alcohol	0.16	0.29	0.44	0.24	0.00	0.02
Mean for all issues	1.32	—	1.40	—	—	—

Scale ranged from 1 = not at all upset to 5 = very upset (if a category was not selected, it received a score of 0).

Proportions do not add to 1.00 due to rounding error.