Chinese Adolescents' Sibling Conflicts: Links With Maternal Involvement in Sibling Relationships and Coparenting

This study explored how maternal involvement in sibling relationships and coparenting behaviors were associated with adolescents' sibling conflicts. Adolescents (Mage = 12.25 years; 47.8% boys) and their mothers from 542 families in China participated in this research. Mothers completed questio...

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Published inJournal of research on adolescence Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 752 - 762
Main Author Chen, Bin‐Bin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2019
Subjects
Adolescents
Behavior
Coparenting
Family roles
Interpersonal conflict
Mothers
Parent participation
Questionnaires
Siblings
Teenagers
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Summary:This study explored how maternal involvement in sibling relationships and coparenting behaviors were associated with adolescents' sibling conflicts. Adolescents (Mage = 12.25 years; 47.8% boys) and their mothers from 542 families in China participated in this research. Mothers completed questionnaires that assessed their strategies of involvement in sibling relationships, as well as their perceptions of the quality of their coparenting behaviors. Furthermore, adolescents completed questionnaires that assessed sibling conflicts. Results revealed that the mother's positive guidance was negatively related and their authoritarian control was positively related to sibling conflict. A significant interaction was also found between positive maternal guidance in sibling relationships and undermining coparenting behaviors. These findings underscore the unique and interactive effects of mothers' direct involvement in sibling relationships and coparenting behaviors in adolescents' sibling conflicts.
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ISSN:1050-8392
1532-7795
DOI:10.1111/jora.12413