The sibling relationship is the longest relationship of the life course and has been found to influence youth adjustment (Dunn, 2002). Given that adolescence is a time of increased body awareness, the authors examined the potential role of siblings’ body conceptions and sibling relationship quality on adolescent body conceptions. In a sample of 101 predominantly White, middle-class adolescent sibling dyads, the authors found that positive sibling relationship quality was associated with higher physical self-worth in adolescents, but that this differed by sibling gender and sibling physical self-worth. Alternatively, negative sibling relationship quality was associated with lower physical self-worth for adolescents, but differed based on birth order, sibling physical self-worth, and adolescent gender.
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Francka, B. A., Lindell, A. K., & Campione-Barr, N. (2019). The Relative Impacts of Sibling Relationships on Adolescent Body Perceptions. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 180(2–3), 130–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2019.1602024
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