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The Impact of Anger between Adults on Siblings' Emotions and Social Behavior
Author(s) -
Cummings E. Mark,
Smith Donna
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb02100.x
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , psychology , anger , developmental psychology , sibling , context (archaeology) , social environment , period (music) , clinical psychology , paleontology , physics , political science , acoustics , law , biology
— Peer and sibling dyads (older children = 5–7 years; younger children = 2–5 years) were presented with simulations of friendly, angry, and resolution interactions between a male adult and the mother in the context of play sessions Expressions of positive effect increased among female siblings during the anger period and continued to be more common in the resolution period than in other groups. Prosocial behavior among male siblings greatly increased in the resolution period, with siblings generally more prosocial towards each other than peers in this period. The findings suggest that siblings may attempt to buffer each other from the stress of exposure to adults' discord.