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ERIC Number: EJ790496
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-May
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2445
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Linkages between Parents' Differential Treatment, Youth Depressive Symptoms, and Sibling Relationships
Shanahan, Lilly; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C.; Osgood, D. Wayne
Journal of Marriage and Family, v70 n2 p480-494 May 2008
We tested social comparison predictions about cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between parents' differential treatment of siblings and both youth depressive symptoms and sibling relationship qualities from middle childhood to late adolescence, controlling for dyadic parent-child relationships and siblings' ratings of parents' fairness. Participants were parents and first- and second-borns (M= 11.8 and 9.2 years old at Year 1) from 201 White, middle/working-class families. Three-level models revealed both cross-sectional and longitudinal linkages between differential treatment and outcomes. For example, youth whose parent-child relationships decreased in warmth relative to those of their sibling reported increases in depressive symptoms and decreases in sibling warmth. Gender and age moderated differential treatment-depressive symptoms associations; birth order moderated differential treatment-sibling relationship associations.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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