Sibling relationship qualities and peer and academic adjustment: A multi-informant longitudinal study of Chinese families.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Bun Lam ◽  
Susan M. McHale ◽  
Chung Sze Lam ◽  
Kevin Kien Hoa Chung ◽  
Ryan Yat Ming Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Chinese Families ◽  
Relationship Qualities

Chinese Adolescents’ Relationships with Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings: Associations With Youth's Internalising and Externalising Problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Feng ◽  
Shawn D. Whiteman ◽  
Siyu Xu ◽  
Ling Li ◽  
Shenghua Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Sibling Conflict ◽  
Chinese Families ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Externalising Problems ◽  
Relationship Qualities ◽  
One Year ◽  
Internalising Problems

AbstractThe associations between Chinese adolescents’ family (maternal, paternal, and sibling) relationship qualities and their adjustment were examined among 540 Chinese families over a one-year period. Path analysis revealed that father-offspring positivity was associated with lower levels of internalising problems, whereas mother-offspring conflict predicted youths’ depressive symptoms and loneliness. Controlling for parent-offspring relationships, sibling intimacy inversely predicted youths’ internalising and externalising problems, whereas sibling conflict predicted youths’ loneliness. Multigroup comparisons revealed that youth gender moderated the associations between maternal conflict and youths’ depressive symptoms, as well as sibling intimacy and youths’ loneliness. Overall, results highlight the importance of family systems for Chinese youths’ mental health and the need to study sibling relationships in future studies of Chinese families.

Learning Morality with Siblings: The Untold Tale of a Mid-Twentieth Century Taiwanese Family

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Jing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Training Model ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Text Analytics ◽  
Chinese Families ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Projective Tests ◽  
Moral Learning ◽  
Peer Community ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis

Abstract This article uses a new theoretical and methodological framework to reconstruct a story of two children from fieldnotes collected by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in rural Taiwan (1958 to 1960). Through the case of a brother–sister dyad, it examines the moral life of young children and provides a rare glimpse into sibling relationship in peer and family contexts. First, combining social network analysis and NLP text-analytics, this article introduces a general picture of these siblings’ life in the peer community. Moreover, drawing from naturalistic observations and projective tests, it offers an ethnographic analysis of how children support each other and assert themselves. It emphasizes the role of child-to-child ties in moral learning, in contrast to the predominant focus of parent–child ties in the study of Chinese families. It challenges assumptions of the Chinese “child training” model and invites us to take children's moral psychology seriously and re-discover their agency.

Children’s Relative Living Proximity and Intergenerational Support to Older Parents in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 016402752110207
Author(s):  
Luoman Bao
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Geographic Proximity ◽  
Child Gender ◽  
Chinese Families ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Negative Effect

Although research has recognized the influence of geographic proximity on intergenerational support in Chinese families, the effect of siblings’ geographic proximity remains unexplored. Guided by the within-family differences approach, this study uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to examine how the relativity of children’s and their siblings’ geographic proximity is associated with children’s support to older parents and how the association differs by child gender. Results show that living relatively farther among siblings is associated with providing less economic support and have less contact with parents, but this negative effect is less prominent on sons’ economic support and daughters’ contact with parents. Having siblings living at the same distance also affects children’s support behaviors. The findings reveal that support responsibilities could be differentially distributed by children’s relative living proximity among siblings and indicate the importance of considering sibling influences when studying intergenerational support in Chinese families.

scholarly journals Predictors of Helping Profession Choice and Volunteerism Among Siblings of Adults With Mild Intellectual Deficits

2011 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Lounds Taylor ◽  
Carolyn M. Shivers
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal Study ◽  
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal ◽  
Intellectual Deficits

Abstract This study examined aspects of the sibling relationship that predicted helping profession choice and volunteerism in siblings of individuals with mild intellectual deficits at 3 points in adulthood: their mid-30s, early 50s, and mid-60s. The 393 respondents were from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a prospective, longitudinal study following participants from ages 18 to 64 years. Being an only sibling predicted greater helping profession choice for female but not male siblings. Being older than the brother or sister with mild intellectual deficits as well as having more contact with and feeling closer to that brother or sister predicted more volunteerism for female but not for male siblings. Earlier measures of contact and closeness were better predictors of volunteerism than concurrent measures.

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