Family Emotional Climate and Sibling Relationship Quality: Influences on Behavioral Problems and Adaptation in Preschool-Aged Children

Autor/inn/en	Modry-Mandell, Kerri L.; Gamble, Wendy C.; Taylor, Angela R.
Titel	Family Emotional Climate and Sibling Relationship Quality: Influences on Behavioral Problems and Adaptation in Preschool-Aged Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 16 (2007) 1, S.59-71 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-1024
DOI	10.1007/s10826-006-9068-3
Schlagwörter	Siblings; Family Environment; Mothers; Family Characteristics; Disadvantaged Youth; Young Children; Sibling Relationship; Older Adults; Birth Order; Low Income Groups; Behavior Problems; Social Adjustment; Preschool Children; Mexican Americans; Child Rearing; Arizona + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sibling; Geschwister; Familienmilieu; Mother; Mutter; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Frühe Kindheit; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Älterer Erwachsener; Geburtenfolge; Soziale Anpassung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Hispanoamerikaner; Kindererziehung
Abstract	We examined the impact of family emotional climate and sibling relationship quality on behavioral problems and adaptation in preschool-aged children. Participants were 63 mothers with a preschool-aged child enrolled in a Southern Arizona Head Start Program. Siblings were identified as children closest in age to target child. Mothers of predominantly Mexican descent (95%) participated in home interviews during the Fall and Spring of the year children entered center-based programs. Sibling relationship quality (warmth, agonism/competition) was proposed to predict children's adjustment (behavioral problems and adaptation) longitudinally. Results indicate that after controlling for child characteristics (temperament, child gender, birth order) and after accounting for family characteristics (family emotional expressiveness, child exposure to interparental conflict, and parental agreement on childrearing), sibling warmth made a significant and unique contribution to child adjustment as reported by mothers and teachers six months later. Findings are consistent with existing research indicating that sibling relationships impact children's adjustment and shape young children's lives in meaningful and marked ways. Moreover, these associations were found with an understudied sample of young children of predominantly Mexican descent in low-income families, and thus make an important contribution to knowledge in the field. (As Provided).
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