Father–Adolescent Conflict and Adolescent Symptoms: The Moderating Roles of Father Residential Status and Type

The purpose of this study was to examine if the longitudinal associations between father-adolescent conflict and both externalizing and internalizing symptoms in youth were moderated by fathers' residential status (i.e., whether or not he lived in the home) and type of residential father (i.e., biological or step).Adolescents (N = 146) completed a measure about conflict with their father or stepfather in 8th and 9th grade. At the same time...