@article{ref1,
title="Delinquency between siblings: a meta-analysis",
journal="Aggression and violent behavior",
year="2022",
author="Walters, Glenn D.",
volume="67",
number="",
pages="e101792-e101792",
abstract="Siblings may have as much impact on delinquency as peers and parents. To determine the degree of impact, a meta-analysis was performed on studies investigating delinquency in siblings. A literature review identified 26 non-redundant studies on sibling delinquency and 36 unique samples of sibling pairs and children who estimated delinquency in a sibling or in their sibling network. A medium pooled effect size was obtained, which decreased only slightly when the analysis was restricted to longitudinal estimates. There was a fair amount of heterogeneity in the results but only two out of 21 moderator effects were significant. One moderator effect indicated that direct reports of delinquency from a sibling produced a significantly stronger effect than when perceived sibling delinquency estimates were used, and the other indicated that longitudinal studies performed in the United States generated a higher pooled effect size than longitudinal studies conducted outside the United States. There was also greater concordance for delinquency in same-sex siblings than in mixed-sex dyads and a non-significant trend in longitudinal studies showing transmission progressing from older to younger siblings. These results suggest that siblings are a salient risk factor for delinquency and that they are potentially important in the development of offending behavior.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1359-1789",
doi="10.1016/j.avb.2022.101792",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2022.101792"
}