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By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on August 3, 2010 

While analyzing the relationship between siblings, researchers discovered something about having a sister helps 10- to 14-year-olds not be sad.

That’s one of several intriguing findings from a new study on the impact siblings have on one another. Brigham Young University professor Laura Padilla-Walker is the lead author on the research, which also sorts out the influence of siblings and the influence of parents within families.

“Even after you account for parents’ influence, siblings do matter in unique ways,” said Padilla-Walker, who teaches in BYU’s School of Family Life.

“They give kids something that parents don’t.”

Padilla-Walker’s research stems from BYU’s Flourishing Families Project and will appear in the August issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.

The study included 395 families with more than one child, at least one of whom was an adolescent between 10 and 14 years old. The researchers gathered a wealth of information about each family’s dynamic, then followed up one year later.

Statistical analyses showed that having a sister protected adolescents from feeling lonely, unloved, guilty, self-conscious and fearful. It didn’t matter whether the sister was younger or older, or how far apart the siblings were agewise.

Brothers mattered, too. The study found that having a loving sibling of either gender promoted good deeds, such as helping a neighbor or watching out for other kids at school. In fact, loving siblings fostered charitable attitudes more than loving parents did.

The relationship between sibling affection and good deeds was twice as strong as that between parenting and good deeds.

Read in Full:  http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/08/03/sibling-relationships-strengthen-mental-and-life-skills/16330.html

 



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