This article reports on a research study that examined how the frequency of fearfulness for sibling aggression compares with peer victimization in childhood and adolescence.
The authors compared the frequency of fearfulness for sibling versus peer victimization experiences (severe and minor physical, property, and psychological) in childhood and adolescence. Sibling aggression is not recognized as a childhood adversity. Yet a tenet of the family violence literature is that abuse is more fearsome when living with an abuser. Telephone interviews were conducted with parents of children aged 1 to 9 years and with adolescents 10 to 17 years old living with a juvenile sibling (N = 7,029; 49% female) using data from three combined surveys of the National Survey on Children's Exposure to Violence. Fear of sibling aggression was less common than peer aggression. Further, sibling aggression was less fearful than peer aggression for severe and minor physical and property episodes. There was little variation by gender, ethnicity, and parent education level. Children and adolescents do not lack fear from sibling aggression, but the fear is lower than for peer aggression. A prevalent idea in the family violence literature that living with an offender generates more fear was not supported for sibling aggression. (Published Abstract Provided)
Makala hii inaripoti juu ya utafiti uliochunguza jinsi mara nyingi hofu ya uhasama wa ndugu inavyolinganishwa na unyanyasaji wa wenzao katika utoto na ujana. Watafiti walilinganisha mara nyingi ya hofu kwa ndugu dhidi ya uzoefu wa uhasama wa wenzao (mwili mkali na mdogo, mali, na kisaikolojia) katika utoto na ujana. Uhasama wa ndugu au dada hautambuliwi kuwa tatizo la utotoni. Hata hivyo, kanuni ya fasihi ya jeuri ya nyumbani ni kwamba unyanyasaji ni wenye kuogopesha zaidi unapokuwa ukiishi na mtendaji. Mkutano huo ulijumuisha wazazi wa watoto wenye umri wa miaka 1 hadi 9 na vijana wenye umri wa miaka 10 hadi 17 wanaoishi na ndugu au dada (N = 7,029; 49% wanawake) kwa kutumia data kutoka kwa tafiti tatu za pamoja za Utafiti wa Kitaifa wa Ufunuaji wa Watoto kwa Ukatili. Hofu ya uhasama wa ndugu au dada haikuwa ya kawaida sana kuliko uhasama wa wenzao. Zaidi ya hayo, unyanyasaji wa ndugu ulikuwa na hofu kidogo kuliko unyanyasaji wa wenzao kwa matukio makali na madogo ya kimwili na mali. Kulikuwa na tofauti ndogo kulingana na jinsia, kabila, na kiwango cha elimu ya wazazi. Watoto na matineja hawana hofu ya uhasama wa ndugu, lakini hofu ni ya chini kuliko ya uhasama wa wenzao. Wazo la kawaida katika fasihi ya vurugu za nyumbani kwamba kuishi na mkosaji hutokeza hofu zaidi halikuungwa mkono kwa unyanyasaji wa ndugu. (Alichapishwa muhtasari zinazotolewa)