Identified: the families with the most sibling bullying
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- Sibling bullying does have an impact on mental health later in life, and parents and health professionals need to take it seriously to prevent it.
- There are characteristics in families that make sibling bullying more likely.
- Family constellation and early experiences predict families with more sibling bullying.
Sibling bullying does have an effect on mental health later in life for both the victims and the bullies, it needs to be taken more seriously by parents and healthcare professionals. There are families where sibling bullying is more likely and can be prevented – say researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick.
Prof. Dieter Wolke and PhD student Slava Dantchev have previously found that sibling bullying does have an effect on mental health later on in life in previous research but now they have identified the factors in a family that sibling bullying is more likely to occur in their paper Trouble in the Nest: Antecedents of Sibling Bullying Vict...
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