Differentiating typical from atypical perpetration of sibling-directed aggression during the preschool years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sibling aggression is common and often viewed as benign. Although sibling aggression can be harmful for the victims, it may also be a marker of clinical risk for the aggressor. We differentiated typical from atypical levels of perpetration of sibling-directed aggression among preschoolers, a developmental period in which aggression is a normative misbehavior, by (a) identifying how frequently aggressive behaviors targeted at a sibling must occur to be psychometrically atypical; (b) mapping the dimensional spectrum of sibling-directed aggression from typical, more commonly occurring behaviors to rarer, more atypical, actions; and (c) comparing the psychometric atypicality and typical-to-atypical spectrum of sibling-directed aggression and peer-directed aggression.

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SUBMITTER: Dirks MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7036266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature