Perpetration of sibling aggression and sibling relationship quality in emerging adulthood

Sibling Aggression and Siblicidal Tendencies in Birds

Sibling Jealousy in Early Childhood: Longitudinal Links to Sibling Relationship Quality

The current investigation examined the long-term prediction of sibling jealousy assessed in a laboratory-based paradigm on sibling relationship quality 2 1/2 years later. This multi-method longitudinal study included mothers, fathers, and two children from 35 families. Younger siblings were 16 months and older siblings were, on average, 4 years at Time 1. Positive longitudinal associations were...

Child Behavior and Sibling Relationship Quality: A Cross-Lagged Analysis

Bidirectional associations between sibling relationships and children's problem behaviors are robust, and links with prosocial behavior have also been reported. Using cross-lagged models, we were able to conservatively test temporal directions of links between positive and negative aspects of sibling relationships and children's prosocial behavior and conduct problems across a 3-year time span ...

An understudied form of intra-family violence: Sibling-to-sibling aggression among foster children

Foster children are at high risk for perpetrating and for being victims of sibling aggression and violence. This article proposes an integrative, multidimensional model for studying risk and protective factors of sibling violence. In the model, exposure to sibling violence (perpetration and victimization), child mental disorder, and placement characteristics are risk factors for impaired psycho...

Sibling recognition and the development of identity: intersubjective consequences of sibling differentiation in the sister relationship.

Identity is, among other things, a means to adapt to the others around whom one must fit. Psychoanalytic theory has highlighted ways in which the child fits in by emulating important others, especially through identification. Alternately, the child may fit into the family and around important others through differentiation, an unconscious process that involves developing or accentuating qualiti...