Sibling Relationships

McHale, Susan M.; Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Whiteman, Shawn D.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5_15

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“…the effect of the firstborns’ age), although other studies have reported such effects (e.g., Deater-Deckard, Dunn, & Lussier, 2002; Dunn et al, 1999; Hetherington et al, 1999). Recent efforts, however, suggested the need for a more process-oriented approach to understanding the development of sibling relationships rather than relying on family structural variables (e.g., Kramer & Conger, 2009; McHale et al, 2012; Volling 2005, 2012). Thus, other family processes must account for why children engaged in different social interaction patterns with their infant siblings in the current investigation.…”

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“…Several researchers have argued for a process-oriented approach that addresses the interplay between child, parent, and family factors in predicting sibling relationship quality (McHale, Updegraff, & Whiteman, 2012; Volling, 2012). For example, studies have shown that children's temperamental characteristics and parenting behaviors were better predictors of sibling relationship quality than family structural variables such as birth order, age space, and gender (Buhrmester & Furman, 1990; Stocker, Dunn, & Plomin, 1989; McGuire et al, 1996).…”

Section: Child Parent and Family Factors Predicting Trajectories Of mentioning

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Trajectories of children’s social interactions with their infant sibling in the first year: A multidimensional approach.

Oh¹,

Volling²,

Gonzalez³

2015

Journal of Family Psychology

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Individual differences in longitudinal trajectories of children's social behaviors toward their infant sibling were examined simultaneously across multiple social dimensions: Positive engagement (moving toward), Antagonism (moving against), and Avoidance (moving away). Three distinct social patterns were identified: (C1) Positively-Engaged (n=107, 50%); (C2) Escalating-Antagonism (n=90, 42%); and (C3) Early-Onset Antagonism (n=16, 8%). Children in the positively-engaged class had high levels of positive engagement with their infant siblings, coupled with low levels of antagonism and avoidance. The escalating-antagonism class was positively engaged in sibling interaction with a steep escalation in antagonistic behavior and avoidance from 4 to 12 months. Children in the early-onset antagonism class displayed the highest level of antagonistic behavior starting as early as 4 months, and became increasingly avoidant over time. A path model, guided by a process × person × context × time model, revealed that low parental self-efficacy heightened by parenting stress and children's dysregulated temperament was directly related to the escalating-antagonism pattern. Punitive parenting in response to children's antagonistic behavior increased the likelihood of being in the early-onset antagonism class. Together, the results highlighted heterogeneity in the earliest emergence of sibling interaction patterns and the interplay of child and parent factors in predicting distinct sibling interaction trajectory patterns.

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Section: Child Parent and Family Factors Predicting Trajectories Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Trajectories of children’s social interactions with their infant sibling in the first year: A multidimensional approach.

Oh¹,

Volling²,

Gonzalez³

2015

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…Of all of the close relationships one encounters across the lifespan, the sibling relationship is among the longest lasting, with important implications for adjustment and well‐being from childhood through late adulthood (e.g., McHale, Updegraff, & Whiteman, ). Sibling relationships are a unique relational context in that they include both reciprocal and hierarchical features (Dunn, , ).…”

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Relative Power in Sibling Relationships Across Adolescence

Lindell

Campione‐Barr

2017

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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During childhood, older siblings typically hold a more powerful position in their relationship with their younger siblings, but these relationships are thought to become more egalitarian during adolescence as siblings begin to prepare for their relationships as adults and as younger siblings become more socially and cognitively competent. Little is known about relationship factors that may explain this shift in power dynamics, however. The present study therefore examined longitudinal changes in adolescents' and their siblings' perceptions of sibling relative power from age 12 to 18 (n = 145 dyads), and examined whether different levels of sibling relationship positivity and negativity, as well as sibling structural variables, indicated different over-time changes in relative power. Multilevel models indicated that adolescents reported significant declines in their siblings' relative power across adolescence, with older siblings relinquishing the most power over time. However, only siblings with less positively involved relationships reported declines in relative power, suggesting that siblings who maintain highly involved relationships may not become more egalitarian during adolescence.

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“…We included the child’s age as a covariate because ToM is an age-sensitive measure (Wellman, 2014) and sibling relationship quality may be affected by children’s age (McHale, Updegraff, & Whiteman, 2012; Volling, 2012). We also included children’s gender because of earlier research finding differences in affective understanding between boys and girls (Dunn et al, 1991).…”

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Theory‐of‐Mind development and early sibling relationships after the birth of a sibling: Parental discipline matters

Song

Volling

2017

Infant and Child Development

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This study investigated relations among children's Theory-of-Mind (ToM) development, early sibling interactions, and parental discipline strategies during the transition to siblinghood. Using a sample of firstborn children and their parents (N = 208), we assessed children's ToM before the birth of a sibling and 12 months after the birth, and sibling interactions (i.e., positive engagement and antagonism) and parental discipline strategies (i.e., child-centred and parent-centred discipline) at 4 and 8 months in the first year of siblinghood. Structural equation modelling analyses revealed that children's ToM before the birth of the sibling predicted children's positive engagement with the infant sibling, whereas children's antagonistic behaviours towards the infant sibling negatively predicted children's ToM at 12 months, but only when mothers used low levels of child-centred discipline. These findings emphasize the role of parents in the development of young children's social- cognitive understanding in the context of sibling interactions even as early as the first year after the sibling's birth.

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Sibling Relationships

Cited by 22 publications

References 145 publications

Trajectories of children’s social interactions with their infant sibling in the first year: A multidimensional approach.

Trajectories of children’s social interactions with their infant sibling in the first year: A multidimensional approach.

Relative Power in Sibling Relationships Across Adolescence

Theory‐of‐Mind development and early sibling relationships after the birth of a sibling: Parental discipline matters

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