Popular Research

Check out the 2026 special issue Sibling Relationship Processes Across the Lifespan in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships edited by Sarah Killoren and Nicole Campione-Barr!

Below we provide some articles that have been pivotal in understanding sibling relationship context in the United States. 

• An introduction to the special issue on sibling relationship processes across the lifespan

• Topic trends in sibling research in the journal of social and personal relationships

• Does sibling differentiation promote relational harmony or discord? Evidence from a longitudinal dyadic study

• Sibling and best friend conflict resolution strategies among Mexican-origin youth

• Daily sibling interactions among latino children in middle childhood: An examination of familism values and sibling roles

• Confidants for life: Examining sibling relationship positivity and disclosure in U.S. Latinx college students while considering the role of familism

• Adult sibling relationships and media multiplexity theory

• The more, the merrier? Young adults’ sibling relationship quality in medium to large families

• The protective role of siblings in sexual diverse emerging adult well-being

• Adult sibling tension and psychological well-being in the context of older mothers’ health limitations: Variation by gender and race

• Forging one’s identity as a twin: Balancing sibling cohesion and deidentification

• Parents’ psychological control and Latina young women’s depressive symptoms: Examining the role of perceived dyadic coping behaviors from sisters

• Raising siblings is stressful: Measuring parental emotion regulation in the sibling context

• You need to take turns! Sibling sharing and the emergence of conscience in early childhood

• All in the family: A collective case study of family influence on siblings’ experiences and outcomes in organized youth sport

International research is noted as being both important and essential in better contextualizing these relationships. 

• An introduction to the special issue on sibling relationship processes across the lifespan

• Sibling relationship qualities and prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian college students: Intervening roles of family respect values and empathy

• Associations of sibling relationship quality and emotion regulation with child functioning in families with parental cancer

• “If your relationship is a swamp, your sister is like a hand that pulls you out of it”: Sisterhood as a source of support on relationship issues and dating violence

• Raising siblings is stressful: Measuring parental emotion regulation in the sibling context

• Sibling Warmth, Self-Worth, and Empathy among Chinese Adolescents

• A phenomenological study of sibling non-normative death in young adulthood: Continuity, change, grief, and growth

• The correlation between sibling relationships and psychosocial adaptation among left-behind children in China: A latent profile analysis

• Associations between sibling relationship quality and daily interactions in early adolescence

• Stability of distinct relational profiles of adolescent sibling relationships and friendships: A latent transition analysis