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| Positive consequences of sibling conflict in childhood and adulthood | | Author(s) | Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford, Brenda L Volling, Paula Smith Avioli |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 51, no 1, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 53-70 |
| Keywords | Siblings ; Family relationships ; Life span. |
| Annotation | This article was an attempt to integrate the two disparate literatures on sibling conflict in childhood and adulthood with a particular emphasis on the potential benEfits of conflictual sibling relations for adult well-being and competence. The extant literature on children's sibling conflicts underscores that conflictual exchanges may actually be related to increases in children's social and emotional competence, the development of self and identity formation, sibling relationship quality, and the subsequent parenting of one's own children. The authors present descriptive data bearing on similar categorical benefits from interviews with middle-aged and older adults with respect to sibling conflict in childhood and adulthood. Based on these findings, they recommend that future research on adult social relations should seriously consider the many ways in which challenge, conflict and adversity in social relationships may contribute to developmental outcomes, both "good" and "bad". (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010403204 A |
| Classmark | SV: DS:SJ: BG6 |
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