Research Articles

Publication Topic
Perpetration of aggression toward a sibling is common and has negative health consequences in late adolescence suggesting this issue should be targeted to improve adolescents' sibling dynamics and physical health.
Sibling Aggression and Abuse
A holistic approach to child maltreatment
Children and adolescents experience more violence, abuse, and criminal victimisation than do other segments of the population.
Sibling Aggression and Abuse
This research examines how family dynamics like interparental conflict, family violence, and quality of parenting are associated with young children鈥檚 experiences of sibling victimization. We use nationally representative data from interviews with caregivers of 1,726鈥�
Sibling Aggression and Abuse
We find that proactive sibling aggression increases risk for problem substance use and delinquent behavior, reactive sibling aggression increases risk for depressed mood and delinquent behavior, and such results are observed even with statistical adjustments for鈥�
Sibling Aggression and Abuse
Sibling and peer victimization in childhood and adolescence
This study examined how victimizations by either a sibling or peer are linked to each other and to mental health in childhood and adolescence. This work establishes that for some children and adolescents, victimization at the hands of other juveniles happens both at鈥�
Sibling Aggression and Abuse
Sibling aggression is common but often dismissed as benign. We examine whether being a victim of various forms of sibling aggression is associated with children鈥檚 and adolescents鈥� mental health distress. We also contrast the consequences of sibling versus peer鈥�
Sibling Aggression and Abuse
The goals of this study were: (1) to describe and compare parental responses to school-aged siblings鈥� conflicts; (2) to explore the sibling relationship structural correlates of the parental responses; and (3) to assess the links between type of parental response and鈥�
Sibling Rivalry and Conflict
Prevalence and correlates of sibling victimization types
The goal of this study was to document the prevalence and correlates of any past year sibling victimization, including physical, property, and psychological victimization, by a co-residing juvenile sibling across the spectrum of childhood from one month to 17 years鈥�
Sibling Aggression and Abuse
This study examined whether female emerging adults' recalled sibling warmth moderated the relationship between exposure to inter-parental conflict in adolescence and their current depression.
Positive Sibling Relationships
We describe sibling proactive and reactive aggression in middle and late adolescence. Participants were 8th and 12th grade adolescents who completed an in-school survey.
Sibling Aggression and Abuse