“…Providing optimal care to parents often necessitates that siblings increase their contact with one another, especially to negotiate their responsibilities and coordinate care (Connidis & Kemp, 2008; Finch & Mason, 1993). However, sibling conflict often arises during these negotiations (Connidis, 2007; Ingersoll-Dayton, Neal, Ha, & Hammer, 2003; Lashewicz & Keating, 2009; Ngangana, Davis, Burns, McGee, & Montgomery, 2016; Tolkacheva et al, 2010), especially when siblings do not share caregiving responsibilities equally (Gentry, 2001; Khodyakov & Carr, 2009). Because such conflict may affect the quality of care older parents receive and the stress adult child caregivers experience, exploring cross-cultural variations in processes through which perceptions of PDT influence sibling conflict has important implications for both academics and professionals working on family caregiving.…”