TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Sisters, brothers, and delinquency: evaluating social influence during early and middle adolescence
JO  - Child development
A1  - Slomkowski, Cheryl
A1  - Rende, Richard
A1  - Conger, Katherine Jewsbury
A1  - Simons, Ronald L.
A1  - Conger, Rand D.
SP  - 271
EP  - 283
VL  - 72
IS  - 1
N2  - Although a number of studies have shown that brothers are highly correlated for delinquent behavior, much less research has been conducted on sisters. We propose that sisters, like brothers, show notable similarity for delinquent behavior, and also promote each other's delinquency through direct interaction. We examined these issues in 164 brother and sister pairs studied over a 4-year period (from early to middle adolescence) in a study of intact families in the rural Midwest. Sibling similarity for self-reports of delinquent behavior were highly correlated for both brothers and sisters. Conditional effects of high levels of hostileócoercive sibling relationships and older sibling delinquency predicted younger sibling delinquency in both brother and sister pairs. For brothers, conditional effects were also detected for high levels of warmthósupport, in contrast to sisters. The conditional effects of older sibling delinquency and relationship quality were shown to predict change in younger sibling delinquency through adolescence. The results add to a growing literature on sibling effects as well as theoretical models that emphasize the role of social interaction between siblings as a risk factor for the development of delinquent activity in adolescence. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Child Development, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by the Society for Research in Child Development; Blackwell Publishers, Inc.)    Sibling Relations  Family Relations  Juvenile Delinquency  Juvenile Offender  Delinquency Causes  Late Childhood  Late Adolescence  Early Adolescence  Juvenile Male  Juvenile Female  Child Male  Child Female  Child Delinquency  Child Offender  Male Offender  Female Offender  09-01<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -