CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

• Background to the Study

The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between parental conflict and social adjustment of adolescents. Adolescent is a period at which individuals develop self-identities and is one of the most challenging periods in an individual‘s development (Jayachandran, 2017). Studies have shown that Adolescence is a time of new challenges and new opportunities. Some adolescents do not negotiate these challenges positively and develop personal and social problems, which lead towards their maladjustment. Parental conflict varies depending on the frequency and type (Ernest-Ehibudu, Ijeoma, Obikoya, & Oluwatoyin, 2017). Social adjustment have different levels such as delinquency behaviours, offensive interpersonal behaviour or pro-social behaviour (Lee, 2018) and varies depending on the gender of the adolescents (Jayachandran, 2017).

Stability of marriage is determined by the level of unity among family members (Wu, Wong, Yu, Fok,Yeung, Lam and Liu (2016). However, more times than not conflicts are unavoidable in marriage. Conflict within the family is a common contemporary phenomenon and greatly impact on the children in homes as seen among adolescents in United States of America (Kumar & Mattanah, 2017). Conflicts in a marriage may result into undesired psychological issues. Ubaidi (2017) asserts that children from a marriage characterized with persistent conflicts in Ghana, are predisposed to challenges in their future relationships. Such predispositions are influenced by the types of the conflicts a child is exposed to at home.

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