To test this, one would need tosample randomly from a population of delinquent youth.
A true experiment is needed.
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- Mar 2018
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However, these attitudes are a moving target. Our study alsodemonstrates that moral disengagement tends to decline over timein this sample. Whether this decline is indicative of developmentalchange is not something that we can determine from these data.Prior research suggests that moral disengagement declines be-tween adolescence and early adulthood in normative samples ofadolescents (Paciello et al., 2008).
Genetic perhaps?
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Psychopathic Traits Inventor
Ahha! i knew this had something to do with psychopathic traits.
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- Jan 2018
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The resultshere, indicating impact on positive but not negative dimensionsof sibling relations and child adjustment, also suggest that thereis an opportunity to improve SIBS. The program’s partial successevidences the promise of incorporating siblings into theprevention repertoire. We envision future development of thisand other programs focused on sibling relationships as well asintegrating sibling-focused strategies into other family-, school-,and community-based programs.
Overall, I like this study and can understand why it was published. This is clearly an area that needs further research. Also, very progressive to only post the effect sizes, interesting. This study is a positive step in the right direction, and provides evidence that we are in need of programs that incorporate sibling-focused strategies implemented into the community. I think this program has the opportunity to promote positive sibling interactions, as this tends to be an area that is quite overlooked. It was always just assumed that you will figure out a way to get along with your siblings,and from that - you will learn pro-social behaviors. I like how this study incorporated the parents, i think that is very effective. However, what about extended family members or grandparents? What if the child was not raised by their parents? I think that future research may want to look at adding another group, in order to strengthen the research. Specifically, how can we determine that it was the siblings are special program that changed the behaviors, and not just interacting in an activity? What if they instead had: Experimental group (SAS program), control group (who did nothing different) and a third group that did some kind of arbitrary activity. Only then can we determine that it was in fact the SAS program that changed the behavior and not just participating in an activity?
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This study used videotaped data from a 10-minutedyadic sibling interaction in which siblings were asked to plana party.
This concerns me. I am always critical of videotaped observations. One cannot help but act different when they know they are being recorded, unless the participant was unaware of the video? I am not sure here... Never the less, i find this type of observation invasive. However, i am very unfamiliar with qualitative research methods (currently taking a course on this to brush up) so maybe this is standard?
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Alpha
relatively good alpha levels.
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Data came from mothers, fathers, and two target siblings in174 families, drawn from 16 schools in seven rural and urbanschool districts.
Hard to generalize with such a small population.
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talkabout sex
This is deviant?
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Reflecting the region, participants were mostly white(79% mothers, 77% fathers), but included African Americans(10% mothers and fathers) and other ethnicities.
Typical of psychological research (majority white and middle class), and unfortunately a slight bias. I wonder if these results would be different if we looked at lower SES with a larger number of participants in a minority group...?
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Deviance training may be most prom-inent in brotherebrother pairs
Why is this the case? And why is it different between the genders? What does the research say? Is it because of specific "gender roles" which promote boys to be more aggressive than girls, and therefore show more risky behaviors?
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