Attachment representations, parental differential treatment and sibling relationships.

摘要: The purpose of this review is to examine the literature on siblings and sibling relationships. To outline importance under-researched field details link between relationship quality individual psychosocial outcome. Initial research into area started with investigations influence structural variables temperament but found that they explained only a small proportion variance in quality. Associations relationships peer have been as yet no studies investigated direction causality. nature parent-child has be strong predictor relationship. Further discovered how parents treat children differently not related also adjustment. Where greater differential experience perceived it associated poorer more problem behaviours.