This study employs findings from social comparison research to investigate adolescents'
comparisons with siblings with regard to parental treatment. The sibling comparison�…

Recent behavioral genetic research emphasizes the nonshared family environment as an
important contributor to psychological differences between siblings raised in the same�…

Family patterns of differential parental treatment were examined for both mothers and fathers
of preschool-aged siblings in an effort to determine (1) whether parents" favored" the�…

Little is currently known about the significance of parents' unequal treatment of siblings and
their relationships with their children; for example, are high levels of differential treatment�…

Children's relationships with their siblings can be important sources of influence in their
lives, along with those they form with their parents, teachers, and friends. Siblings can serve�…

Studied here were the links between sibling differences in trajectories of change in the
qualities of parent–child relationships and the qualities of sibling relationships across a 2�…

Guided by predictions from equity theory and the self-esteem maintenance model, links
between perceptions of current parental differential treatment and the perceiver's�…

Associations between siblings' behavior problems and mother-child relationships were
examined when older siblings were approximately 7 years old and 3 years later when�…

Background: The present study extends existing studies on the role of differential parental
treatment in explaining individual differences in adolescent problem behaviors above the�…

To what extent do siblings in the same family experience different parental treatment, sibling
interaction, and peer relationships? Are such within-family experiential differences related to�…