Sibling Relationship Quality and Adolescent Delinquency: A Latent Growth Curve Approach

The present study examined whether level and changes in sibling relationship quality and older sibling delinquency are related to level and changes in younger sibling delinquency, for brother, sister, older brother/younger sister and older sister/younger brother sibling pairs. Questionnaire data wer...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of family psychology 2010-08, Vol.24 (4), p.400-410
Main Author: Buist, Kirsten L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Age Differences
Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
Brothers
Child
Delinquency
Family Relations
Female
Gender differences
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Intervention
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency - psychology
Male
Measurement
Medical sciences
Mixed sex
Models, Statistical
Multivariate Analysis
Netherlands
Personal relationships
Psychological aspects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality
Relationship Quality
Sex
Sex Factors
Sibling Relations
Sibling relationships
Siblings
Sisters
Social behavior disorders. Criminal behavior. Delinquency
Teenagers
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The present study examined whether level and changes in sibling relationship quality and older sibling delinquency are related to level and changes in younger sibling delinquency, for brother, sister, older brother/younger sister and older sister/younger brother sibling pairs. Questionnaire data were collected from 249 Dutch sibling pairs (11-15 years old) over a period of three years, with annual measurements. Results showed that level and over-time changes in sibling relationship quality and older and younger sibling delinquency were significantly different for the four sibling gender combinations. Results of multivariate growth curve modeling showed that sibling relationship quality was related to delinquency of older siblings (but not younger siblings), and delinquency of older siblings was associated with younger sibling delinquency two years later. We also found differences between the four sibling gender combinations. For example, for brother and sister pairs (but not mixed-sex sibling pairs), over-time changes in older sibling delinquency were related to younger sibling delinquency two years later as well as the change pattern in younger sibling delinquency over time. Strengths, limitations and possible implications for research and intervention of adolescent delinquency are discussed.
ISSN:0893-3200
1939-1293
DOI:10.1037/a0020351