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Pathways of influence: Marital relationships and their association with parenting styles and sibling relationship quality

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posted on 2023-05-17, 17:33 authored by Yu, JJ, Gamble, WC
We investigated the associations among marital relationship quality, mothers' parenting styles, and young children's sibling relationship quality drawing on the principles of family systems theory. Survey data were collected from 130 mothers who had a target child (mean age = 4.6 years) with a sibling close in age. The sample consisted of participants who self-identified as Mexican-American (49%), European-American (20%), and Taiwanese in Taiwan (24%). Structural equation modeling was used to test the direct and indirect effects of marital relationships on children's sibling relationship quality through parenting styles and the reciprocal association between sibling relationship quality and parenting styles. The findings revealed evidence of a direct effect of marital relationships on sibling relationship quality and bidirectional relations between sibling relationships and parenting styles. The importance of research on bidirectional associations between sibling relations and parenting styles is discussed. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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Publication title

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Issue

17

Pagination

757-778

ISSN

1062-1024

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Springer New York

Place of publication

United States

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Families and family services

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