Siblings Flashcards
Name 3 features of a sibling relationship
1) Longest lasting relationship of most peoples lives
2) Influence can be huge
3) Emotionally unhibited
Name the 4 core elements of the Family Systems Theory
1) Wholeness
2) Integrity
3) Circularity of influence
4) Stability and change
What did Dunn and Kendrick find about mothers positive attention to 1st borns?
It decreased upon sibling arrival, and negative attention increased
What happened to the balance of responsibility between the 1st born and the mother?
1st born takes more of a lead role in initiating interaction
Mother reported lots of help from 1st born, but also?
Teasing the baby
What are siblings particularly sensitive to?
Any changes in parental treatment
Why are siblings sensitive to changes in parental treatment?
It creates more competition and rivalry and less cooperation
If the mum is more controlling, so are?
The children
What did viewing Parental Differential Treatment as fair do?
Ameliorated the negative effects of it, especially for the older sibling
How much % of parental differential treatment viewed as fair e.g. different bedtimes?
75%
Name 3 reasons why siblings provide the biggest parenting challenge?
1) Fights 8x an hour
2) 4% of fights can be seriously physical
3) Source of most family violence
What did preschool sibling relationship quality predict for the older sibling?
Early adolescent adjustment
What 3 things did sibling interventions improve?
1) Perspective taking
2) Problem solving
3) Conflict management
What was wrong with sibling interventions?
Small effect size and no follow up
What did the study by Garcia et al find?
That destructive sibling conflict and rejecting parenting predicted aggressive behaviour problems, and sibling conflict also directly related longitudinally to the delinquency checklist
When was high sibling conflict NOT associated with higher aggression scores?
When theres low rejecting parenting
In Pike et al study, what did they add that previous research did not?
Broader socio-economic sample, looked at child reports of sibling relationships
How was negative spillover demonstrated in Pike et al study?
The higher the mothers anger, the less good quality sibling relationship
After accounting for age, gender and parenting, what was sibling positivity predictive of?
Pro-social behaviour
Positivity within sibling relationship was more _____ linked with child adjustment than sibling conflict was
Strongly
Sibling relationship quality was associated with older or younger sibling adjustment?
Older
