2. And What About Siblings? A Longitudinal Analysis of Sibling Effects on Youth’s Intergroup Attitudes

Autor	ECKSTEIN Katharina ŠEREK Jan NOACK Peter
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Year	2018
Research type	paper in Journal
Annotation	Within the process of political socialization, the family is of particular importance. Apart from parents, however, little is known about the role of other close family members. The present study examined if siblings affect each other’s intergroup attitudes (i.e., intolerance towards immigrants, social dominance orientation). Drawing on a sample of 362 sibling dyads (older siblings: M[age] = 17.77, 53.6% female; younger siblings: M[age] = 13.61, 61.3% female), the results showed that older siblings' intergroup attitudes predicted younger siblings’ attitudes, but this effect was moderated by gender. Specifically, older siblings' intolerance and social dominance orientation were only found to affect their younger sisters, yet not their younger brothers. Although younger siblings’ intergroup attitudes had no main effect on older siblings, a significant moderation by age indicated that younger siblings affected older siblings' social dominance orientation with increasing age. These moderation effects of age and gender were not mediated by the quality of family relationships. The findings also remained the same when parental intergroup attitudes were taken into account. While siblings were generally identified as an important agent of political socialization in youth, the results also highlight the necessity to further examine the mechanism that either facilitate or hinder sibling effects.
Keywords	Family; Intergroup attitudes; Intolerance; Political socialization; Siblings; Youth
Research type	unrepeated research
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Obor	AN Psychology
Email	serek@fss.muni.cz
Availability	available after payment
Link	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0713-5
Research location	Ne
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Organisation web	fss.muni.cz
Possible connection	Children and Youth Ratio in population Number of children and young people Expected numbers of children and young people Number of addressed clients by the Youth Information Centres network International youth cooperation