April 3, 2025
This critical review article explores the distinctions between sibling rivalry, conflict, aggression, and abuse, challenging traditional perceptions and emphasizing the need for more precise terminology in understanding family violence. We offer recommendations for responding to each type of sibling dynamic.
January 26, 2024
Given the prevalence and impacts of sibling aggression, parenting education is needed. Yet evidence-based parent education programs generally do not address it. This represents an opportunity for parenting education. We propose how such information could be infused into parent education programming.
November 30, 2023
Encyclopedia entry about sibling abuse and bullying in Family Violence and Abuse: An Encyclopedia of Trends, Issues, and Solutions.
July 19, 2023
We examine how patterns of sibling victimization (Persist, New Onset, Desist, and None) are associated with mental health in childhood and adolescence. Preventing and stopping sibling victimization could reduce physical injuries and mental health despair in childhood and adolescence.
January 28, 2023
We compared the frequency of fearfulness for sibling versus peer victimization experiences (severe and minor physical, property, and psychological) in childhood and adolescence.
September 9, 2021
Clinical work and parent education programs should address the occurrence of exposure to parent assault on a sibling (EPAS) and the adverse association between EPAS and mental health to reduce its potential negative impact.
June 22, 2020
Identification of family and friend social support as protective factors may help clinicians and intervention work in reducing the detrimental effects of sibling victimization on well-being.
January 13, 2020
Encyclopedia entry about sibling victimization in the Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development.
September 5, 2019
We explore whether there are common family characteristics (family climate, interparental conflict, parenting) in the prediction of sibling and peer victimization. Knowledge of shared familial elements of sibling and peer victimization could benefit family violence and antibullying programs to promote positive interactions and lessen and stop aggression in both sibling and peer relationships.
August 26, 2019
This study examined how emerging adults' perpetration of aggression toward a sibling closest in age was longitudinally associated with their sibling relationship quality. Perpetration of sibling aggression was predictive 4 years later of less sibling warmth, involvement, and emotional help.
November 21, 2018
We document four patterns of sibling victimization (Persist, New, Desist, and None) across two time points and their association with peer victimization at time two and whether these linkages are apparent in early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence.
January 8, 2018
Sibling victimization was related to more mental health problems and delinquency over and above the effect of child abuse and neglect.
October 1, 2017
Sibling conflict and aggression is often a pervasive part of family life that parents want help managing and can have negative effects on children’s well-being. The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate current research regarding programs to reduce sibling conflict and aggression and promote positive sibling relationships.
July 28, 2017
Controlling for other forms of maltreatment and individual and family characteristics, children with a physical disability and parent-perceived children who are thinner than average and children who are overweight experienced more sibling victimization.
December 12, 2016
To understand the role of family adversity in the onset and desistance of sibling victimization, we examined school-age children’s sibling victimization patterns using 2 waves of longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample. An increase in family adversity was associated with initiation of sibling victimization, and termination was related to a decline in family adversity.
October 24, 2015
Perpetration of aggression toward a sibling is common and has negative health consequences in late adolescence suggesting this issue should be targeted to improve adolescents' sibling dynamics and physical health.
April 28, 2015
Children and adolescents experience more violence, abuse, and criminal victimisation than do other segments of the population.
August 11, 2014
This research examines how family dynamics like interparental conflict, family violence, and quality of parenting are associated with young children’s experiences of sibling victimization. We use nationally representative data from interviews with caregivers of 1,726 children aged 2 to 9 years of age.
July 8, 2014
We find that proactive sibling aggression increases risk for problem substance use and delinquent behavior, reactive sibling aggression increases risk for depressed mood and delinquent behavior, and such results are observed even with statistical adjustments for sociodemographic and family variables, stressful life events, and prior adjustment.
June 2, 2014
This study examined how victimizations by either a sibling or peer are linked to each other and to mental health in childhood and adolescence. This work establishes that for some children and adolescents, victimization at the hands of other juveniles happens both at home and school.
