Personality and Sibling Relationships.

Autor/inn/en	Furman, Wyndol; Lanthier, Richard P.
Titel	Personality and Sibling Relationships.
Quelle	In: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, 10 (1996), S.127-146 (21 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Context Effect; Emotional Development; Family Life; First Born; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Role; Personality; Personality Development; Personality Studies; Personality Traits; Sibling Relationship; Siblings + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gefühlsbildung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Personalität; Personalilty development; Persönlichkeitsbildung; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Sibling; Geschwister
Abstract	This study examined the role personality variables play in sibling relationships. It proposed that the characteristics of sibling relationships are influenced by: family constellation variables such as birth order, gender, and age spacing; parent-child relationships including quality of relationship and parent management of siblings; and the cognitive, social, and personality characteristics of the children. The study participants were 56 triads of mothers with two school-age children. The focus was on the role individual characteristics play in sibling relationships, specifically on the dimensions of warmth, conflict, relative power, and competition for parental attention. The dimensions were evaluated via the Five-Factor Model, which contained personality variables of extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. The study found evidence of links between sibling relationships and temperamental or personality characteristics. It found that personality traits were more often associated with conflict than with warmth and that older children's characteristics were more strongly associated with the distribution of power in the relationship. It also found that of the different personality variables, conscientiousness was most often associated with the relationship dimension, with agreeableness as the second most consistent predictor. (Contains 69 references.) (SD)
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