Sentences with phrase «maternal favoritism»

In creating the measures of shared maternal favoritism and disfavoritism, we used two dimensions of each construct because it was necessary to provide respondents with the opportunity to name both themselves and another sibling, and respondents seldom named more than one offspring for any single dimension.

Up to this point, we have been discussing the association between perceived maternal favoritism and within - family differences in sibling relations without taking adult children's gender into consideration.

To create the perceived maternal favoritism measure, we combined adult children's responses to two questions: (a) «To which child in your family is your mother the most emotionally close?»

Drawing on scholarship on tie preferences within established networks, we suggest two processes through which perceptions of patterns of maternal favoritism are likely to shape within - family variations in sibling closeness.

Last, we propose that the role of perceptions of maternal favoritism on sibling closeness will vary by gender.

In this article, we shed new light on this question by exploring the ways in which caregiving and perceptions of maternal favoritism combine to increase sibling tension.

J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Kaitlin Johnson, Karl Pillemer; Caregiving, Perceptions of Maternal Favoritism, and Tension Among Siblings, The Gerontologist, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 August 2014, Pages 580 — 588, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnt065

The study, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, found that people who grew up in homes where they perceived maternal favoritism were more prone to depression as adults.

Not exact matches

Multilevel regression revealed that both recollections of maternal differentiation from childhood and perceptions of mothers» current disfavoritism regarding conflict predicted depressive symptoms, whereas perceptions of current favoritism regarding emotional closeness did not.