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  Journal of Marriage and FamilyVolume 70 Issue 2, Pages 480 - 494 Published Online: 7 Apr 2008 Copyright © National Council on Family Relations, 2010 Published on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 144K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Linkages Between Parents' Differential Treatment, Youth Depressive Symptoms, and Sibling Relationships *Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 105 White Building, University Park, PA 16802. **College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, 201 Henderson Building, University Park, PA 16802. ***Department of Sociology and Crime, Law, & Justice, 1002 Oswald, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus, PA 16802. Copyright © National Council on Family Relations, 2008 KEYWORDS
adolescence
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depression
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middle childhood
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parental differential treatment
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sibling relationships
ABSTRACTWe tested social comparison predictions about cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between parents' differential treatment of siblings and both youth depressive symptoms and sibling relationship qualities from middle childhood to late adolescence, controlling for dyadic parent-child relationships and siblings' ratings of parents' fairness. Participants were parents and first- and second-borns (M= 11.8 and 9.2 years old at Year 1) from 201 White, middle/working-class families. Three-level models revealed both cross-sectional and longitudinal linkages between differential treatment and outcomes. For example, youth whose parent-child relationships decreased in warmth relative to those of their sibling reported increases in depressive symptoms and decreases in sibling warmth. Gender and age moderated differential treatment-depressive symptoms associations; birth order moderated differential treatment-sibling relationship associations. Received: 05 February 2008; Accepted: 04 April 2008; | 
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