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Öz, F. Selda – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of this study is to adapt the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale (LSRS) developed by Riggio (2000) to Turkish. The scale with its original form in English consists of 48 items in total. The original scale was translated into Turkish by three instructors who are proficient both in the field and the language. Later, the original and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sibling Relationship, Siblings, Rating Scales
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Alfaro, Edna C.; Umana-Taylor, Adriana J. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2010
Guided by an ecological perspective, two competing models were tested to examine how sibling relationship quality directly predicted or interacted with academic support from siblings to predict Latino adolescents' academic motivation (N = 258). Gender differences were examined utilizing multiple group analysis in structural equation modeling.…
Descriptors: Siblings, Predictor Variables, Structural Equation Models, Student Motivation
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Yu, Jeong Jin; Gamble, Wendy C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis and multi-group structural equation modeling were used to test correlates of overt and relational aggression between young adolescent siblings across four groups (i.e., male/male, male/female, female/male, and female/female sibling pairs), using 433 predominately European American families. Similar patterns…
Descriptors: Siblings, Aggression, Structural Equation Models, Early Adolescents
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Kretschmer, Tina; Pike, Alison – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: Relationships within families are interdependent and related to distal environmental factors. Low socioeconomic status (SES) and high household chaos (distal factors) have been linked to less positive marital and parent-child relationships, but have not yet been examined with regard to young children's sibling relationships. The…
Descriptors: Siblings, Gender Differences, Family Life, Young Children
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Yeh, Hsiu-Chen; Lempers, Jacques D. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2004
Utilizing longitudinal, 3-wave data collected from multiple informants (fathers, mothers, and target children) in 374 families, the potential effects of sibling relationships on adolescent development across early and middle adolescence were investigated. Adolescents who perceived their sibling relationships more positively at Time 1 tended to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Structural Equation Models, Siblings, Friendship
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Matthews, Lisa S.; Conger, Rand D. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2004
Scholars have suggested that family life may influence children's attributions about close relationships. Using a sample of 369 two-parent families with 2 children (a target adolescent in the 8th grade and a sibling aged 10 to 18), we investigated whether the sibling's negative attributions regarding the target adolescent were associated with…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Structural Equation Models, Siblings, Family Life
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Brody, Gene H.; Kim, Sooyeon; Murry, Velma McBride; Brown, Anita C. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Tested links between early adolescent older sibling (OS) and younger sibling (YS) competence in rural African American families. Found that OS competence was stable across time and related to improvements in mothers' psychological functioning from Wave 1 to Wave 2. Mothers' Wave-2 psychological functioning related to Wave-3 involved-supportive…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Children, Competence, Early Adolescents