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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Liu, Deborah Chien

Titel

Linkages between marital aggression and sibling conflict: Moderating roles of marital conflict resolution and children's attitudes condoning aggression

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This cross-sectional study investigates associations among marital aggression, sibling conflict, children's perceptions of marital conflict resolution, and children's attitudes condoning aggression. Participants are 64 ethnically and economically diverse families from the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Mothers and fathers provided reports on marital aggression and conflict between their two children. Two siblings (ages ranged from 7 to 17) from each family participated in the study, and provided reports on conflict with their sibling. Each child also completed questionnaires on their attitudes condoning aggression, a new measure introduced in this study, and their perceptions of marital conflict resolution. Results indicated that marital aggression was not directly related to sibling conflict, but was moderated by children's attitudes condoning aggression and children's perceptions of marital conflict resolution. Gender composition of sibling pairs was related to sibling conflict, in that pairs of brothers and brother-sister pairs had higher levels of conflict than pairs of sisters. Children's attitudes condoning aggression was related to sibling conflict, indicating that social cognitions related to actual behavior. These findings suggest that that sibling conflict among children has complex associations with the marital relationship as well as with perceptions and attitudes of children.