Longitudinal links between adolescent siblings’ gender-typed characteristics and sibling relationship quality: A dyadic approach

Jenny Padilla; Xiaoran Sun; Susan M. McHale; Kimberly A. Updegraff

doi:10.1007/s12144-022-02919-0

Longitudinal links between adolescent siblings’ gender-typed characteristics and sibling relationship quality: A dyadic approach

Jenny Padilla, Xiaoran Sun, Susan M. McHale, Kimberly A. Updegraff

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Sibling relationships have unique implications for youth well-being and adjustment, leading researchers to examine factors, such as sibling sex, that explain variation in sibling dynamics. This study was designed to unpack biological sex to examine girls’ and boys’ gender-typed personality qualities to determine whether they accounted for differences in sibling intimacy and conflict, beyond the effects of sex. Specifically, we applied the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model via multilevel modeling to 5 years of longitudinal data, collected in home interviews from two adolescent-aged siblings from 194 families, to assess links between older (M_age = 16.47 SD =.80) and younger (M_age = 13.88, SD = 1.15) siblings’ stereotypically feminine, expressive (e.g., kindness, sensitivity) characteristics and their ratings of sibling intimacy and conflict. Results indicated that youth’s expressivity was related positively to their reports of sibling intimacy and negatively to their reports of sibling conflict. Controlling for biological sex, sibling intimacy reached its highest levels and sibling conflict was at its lowest, when both siblings reported high expressivity. On a practical level, these findings illuminate malleable behaviors and characteristics that may promote harmonious sibling relationships, a significant goal given that siblings can serve as sources of support and care in adolescence and beyond.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	15893-15906
Number of pages	14
Journal	Current Psychology
Volume	42
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-02919-0
State	Published - Jun 2023

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This work was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, RO1-HD32336, Ann C. Crouter and Susan M. McHale, co-principal investigators. Research reported in this manuscript was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01-HD32336. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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Actor-partner interdependence model
Expressivity
Gender
Sibling relationships, adolescence

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