Adolescents’ Relationships with Siblings

East, Patricia L.

doi:10.1002/9780470479193.adlpsy002003

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“…This and other recent reviews of sibling relationships and influences (e.g., East, 2009) support the view that levels of parenting warmth and negativity influence sibling relationships, and sibling dynamics affect parents and parenting. Moreover, PDT and the quality of sibling relationships impact children’s internalizing and externalizing behavior problems.…”

Section: Conclusion Future Directions and Practical Implicationssupporting

confidence: 79%

The Third Rail of Family Systems: Sibling Relationships, Mental and Behavioral Health, and Preventive Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence

Feinberg

Solmeyer

McHale

2011

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

221

188

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Sibling relationships are an important context for development, but are often ignored in research and preventive interventions with youth and families. In childhood and adolescence siblings spend considerable time together, and siblings’ characteristics and sibling dynamics substantially influence developmental trajectories and outcomes. This paper reviews research on sibling relationships in childhood and adolescence, focusing on sibling dynamics as part of the family system and sibling influences on adjustment problems, including internalizing and externalizing behaviors and substance use. We present a theoretical model that describes three key pathways of sibling influence: one that extends through siblings’ experiences with peers and school, and two that operate largely through family relationships. We then describe the few existing preventive interventions that target sibling relationships and discuss the potential utility of integrating siblings into child and family programs.

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Section: Conclusion Future Directions and Practical Implicationssupporting

confidence: 79%

The Third Rail of Family Systems: Sibling Relationships, Mental and Behavioral Health, and Preventive Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence

Feinberg

Solmeyer

McHale

2011

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

221

188

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“…Within the Negative profile, siblings in opposite-sex dyads reported greater sexual risk behaviors than siblings in same-sex dyads. Youth with opposite-sex siblings are exposed earlier to potential sexual partners (i.e., siblings’ friends) in adolescence giving them more opportunities to engage in early sexual behaviors, which may result in greater involvement in sexual risk behaviors (East, 2009). Overall, siblings experiencing high levels of negativity and control and low levels of intimacy are vulnerable to engaging in sexual risk behaviors, particularly younger siblings in late adolescence and siblings in opposite-sex dyads.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sibling relationship quality and Mexican-origin adolescents’ and young adults’ familism values and adjustment

Killoren

Jesús

Updegraff

et al. 2016

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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We examined profiles of sibling relationship qualities in 246 Mexican-origin families living in the United States using latent profile analyses. Three profiles were identified: Positive, Negative and Affect-Intense. Links between profiles and youths’ familism values and adjustment were assessed using longitudinal data. Siblings in the Positive profile reported the highest familism values, followed by siblings in the Affect-Intense profile and, finally, siblings in the Negative profile. Older siblings in the Positive and Affect-Intense profiles reported fewer depressive symptoms than siblings in the Negative profile. Further, in the Positive and Negative profiles, older siblings reported less involvement in risky behaviors than younger siblings. In the Negative profile, younger siblings reported greater sexual risk behaviors in late adolescence than older siblings; siblings in opposite-sex dyads, as compared to same-sex dyads, engaged in riskier sexual behaviors. Our findings highlight sibling relationship quality as promotive and risky, depending on sibling characteristics and adjustment outcomes.

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“…Others further suggest that it is how children work through sibling conflict, rather than the overall level of conflict, that has positive implications for emotional understanding (Katz et al, 1992; Ross, Ross, Stein, & Trabasso, 2006). Because older siblings tend to be more advanced than younger siblings in their socioemotional development, especially during early childhood (East, 2009), most studies frame their analyses to examine older siblings’ influences on their younger siblings. Younger siblings’ influences on their older sisters and brothers are rarely explored.…”

Section: Sibling Relationships and Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are a number of reasons to expect that the answer is yes. First, siblings remain a salient part of adolescents’ social environments (East, 2009). Second, the dramatic biological and social changes during adolescence that are thought to contribute to empathy development may also represent new opportunities for siblings to shape each other’s empathy.…”

Section: Sibling Relationships and Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%