Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
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Research Article

Predicting Sibling Relationship Quality from Family Conflict: A Longitudinal Study from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood

¹Department of Psychology, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Box 34, Wichita, KS 67260-0034, USA

²Department of Psychology, Oregon Social Learning Center, 160 East 4th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401, USA

*Corresponding Author:

Michael R Pauldine
Department of Psychology Wichita
State University, 1845 Fairmount
Box 34, Wichita, KS 67260-0034, USA
Tel: +1-316-978-3170
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E-mail: mrpauldine@wichita.edu

Received Date: July 03, 2015 Accepted Date: August 06, 2015 Published Date: August13, 2015

Citation: Pauldine MR, Snyder J, Bank L, Owen LD (2015) Predicting Sibling Relationship Quality from Family Conflict: A Longitudinal Study from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood. J Child Adolesc Behav 3:231. doi:10.4172/2375-4494.1000231

Copyright: © 2015 Pauldine MR, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

Socialization experiences in the family have profound and lasting effects on development. The present study investigated whether exposure to family conflict in early adolescence influences relationship quality with siblings during young adulthood. Using a longitudinal design, observations of family conflict were used to predict self- and other-reported sibling relationship quality a decade later in an at-risk sample of 98 male and female older siblings of target boys in the Oregon Youth Study. Results indicated that familial conflict during early adolescence reliably predicted quality of sibling relationships during emerging adulthood. These findings are discussed with respect to social learning theory, previous research, and treatment implications.

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