Domain differentiated disclosure to mothers and siblings and associations with sibling relationship quality and youth emotional adjustment.

• DOI: 10.1037/dev0000036
• Publication Date: 2015-07-20T12:54:47Z
• Authors: Nicole Campione-Barr; Anna K. Lindell; Sonia E. Giron; Sarah E. Killoren; Kelly Bassett Greer
• Keywords: Dyad; Sibling relationship; Self-disclosure

Disclosure, or revealing personal information to others, is important for the development and maintenance of close relationships (Jourard, 1971; Rotenberg, 1995). More recently within developmental psychology, however, focus has been study adolescent disclosure parents as a means management regarding their daily activities. This research assumes that a) between multiple adolescents same family are similar, b) only transmitted from well-being. Thus, this article presents findings 2 within-family studies investigate differences in amount social domain (Smetana, 2006; Turiel, 2002) youth mothers versus siblings, influence siblings on relationship quality emotional adjustment. Study 1 utilized 101 sibling dyads with ranging age 11-21 years, but all living together. investigated sample 58 which first-borns were first-year college students second-borns high school. All participants completed questionnaire measures assess variables. Findings revealed while disclosed more than difference disappears by emerging adulthood, particularly depending issue. Additionally, greater among was positive relationship, differentially associated adjustment whether disclosers being to, issues disclosed, gender composition dyad.