The role of maternal factors in sibling relationship quality: a multilevel study of multiple dyads per family
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- DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02484.x
The role of maternal factors in sibling relationship quality: a multilevel study of multiple dyads per family
Abstract
Background: Although many children grow up with more than one sibling, we do not yet know if sibling dyads within families show similarities to one another on sibling affection and hostility. In the present study the hypotheses were tested that (a) there will be significant between family variation in change in sibling affection and hostility and (b) this between family variation will be explained by maternal affective climate, operationalized as positive and negative ambient parenting, differential parenting and maternal malaise.
Methods: A general population sample of families with single and multiple sibling dyads were visited twice, 2 years apart. Up to 2 children in a family acted as informants; 253 relationships were rated in 118 families. A cross-classified, multilevel model was fit to separate between-family and within-family variance in sibling relationships while simultaneously controlling for informant and partner influences.
Results: Thirty-seven percent of the variance in change in sibling affection and 32% of the variance in change in sibling hostility was between family variance. The measured maternal affective climate including, maternal malaise and maternal ambient and differential hostility and affection explained between family differences.
Conclusions: Sibling relationship quality clusters in families and is partly explained by maternal affective climate.
© 2011 The Authors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry © 2011 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Comment in
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Commentary: Are siblings birds of a feather?--reflections on Jenkins et al. (2012).J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2012 Jun;53(6):630-1. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02536.x. Epub 2012 Feb 16. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2012. PMID: 22335540 No abstract available.
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Editorial: The developmental psychopathologist as scientist-sleuth--can large-scale longitudinal birth cohort studies provide the missing clues?J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2012 Jun;53(6):619-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02562.x. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2012. PMID: 22587418 No abstract available.
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