Continuities in sibling relationships: patterns of aggression and friendliness

J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1985 Jul;26(4):627-37. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1985.tb01645.x.

Abstract

Thirteen girls and 12 boys who had been observed at home as 2- to 3-year-olds with their mothers and infant siblings were interviewed as 6-year-olds about their relationship with their siblings; their mothers also were interviewed. The marked individual differences found among the 2- to 3-year-olds in comments about their siblings were correlated with differences in the children's comments about their siblings 3-4 years later, and the differences in their behaviour towards their siblings as 2- to 3-year-olds were correlated with differences in their mothers' accounts of the sibling relationship at the 6-year visits.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aggression / psychology*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Interview, Psychological
  • Male
  • Mothers
  • Sibling Relations*