Interrelationship of conjugal conflicts, conjugal satisfaction of mothers and mother-daughter communication

A sample comprising 41 couples and their adolescent daughters participated in a study on the association between marital conflicts and mother-daughter communication. Observational measurements and questionnaires were used to evaluate the level of the quality of communication between the couple, the marital satisfaction of the parents and the quality of the communication be tween mother and adolescent daughters. The results show that: (a) conflicts observed between the parents are positively associated with the level of c onfrontation observed between the mother and the daughter and (b) the marit al satisfaction of the mothers plays a mediatory role between the conflicts in the couple and the level of mother-daughter confrontation. The marital satisfaction of the mothers would be the link in the process of propagation of the affects and the negative behaviour of the couple and the mother-ado lescent daughter relationship.