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Adjustment in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence: Links with Earlier and Contemporary Sibling Relationships
Author(s) -
Dunn Judy,
Slomkowski Cheryl,
Bcardsall Lynn,
Rende Richard
Publication year - 1994
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.1469-7610.1994.tb01736.x
Subject(s) - sibling , psychology , developmental psychology , mood , sibling relationship , early childhood , period (music) , social relation , birth order , clinical psychology , demography , social psychology , physics , acoustics , population , sociology
The relation of individual differences in internalizing and externalizing behaviour in middle childhood and early adolescence to children's concurrent sibling relationships and their mothers' mood, and to their sibling and mother–child relationships in the preschool period was studied. Thirty‐nine younger and 39 older siblings observed at home in the preschool period were studied 5 and 7 years later. Differences in adjustment were related to contemporary sibling relationships and maternal mood, and to sibling and mother‐child interaction in the preschool period, even when mothers' current mood was taken into account.