Young adults’ sibling relationships: Italian adaptation and validation of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale

Sommantico, Massimiliano; Donizzetti, Anna Rosa; Rosa, Barbara De; Parrello, Santa

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“…In the current study, female emerging adults also reported significantly higher scores than Turkish male emerging adults in Adult subscales, suggesting that female participants have closer and more satisfying relations with their siblings than male participants do. This finding is in line with the results of Riggio (2000) and Sommantico et al (2017). The current study also revealed that female participants reported significantly higher scores than male participants, particularly on Adult Affect and Adult Behavior subscales.…”

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“…The result indicated that the measurement model is invariant and the construct identities are the same across the genders. In addition, the reliability of test scores for all subscales and total score revealed good internal consistency reliability, which is consistent with previous studies (Jeong et al, 2013;Riggio, 2000;Sommantico et al, 2017).…”

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“…These studies revealed that the LSRS has adequate psychometric properties. It has also been adapted and translated into other languages, such as Korean and Italian (Jeong et al, 2013;Sommantico, Donizzetti, De Rosa, & Parrello, 2017). Both studies confirmed the validity and reliability of the scale across different cultures with good psychometric properties.…”

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The Reliability and Validity of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale in a Turkish Emerging Adult Sample

Cilali¹,

Erdur-Baker²,

Bugay³

2019

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The present study examines the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale (LSRS; Riggio, 2000). A total of 578 (336 female, 242 male) Turkish emerging adults participated in this study. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to test construct validity for the original six-factor model of the scale with 48 items. Results of the CFA indicated a good model fit. Furthermore, the second-order CFA result showed that the scale can be scored for both the subdimensions and the test as a whole. Multi-group CFA result revealed that the measured construct is invariant across the genders. The results suggested that the Turkish version of the LSRS had adequate internal consistency and construct validity, indicating that it can be reliably used to measure attitudes toward sibling relationship in emerging adulthood among a Turkish population.

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The Reliability and Validity of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale in a Turkish Emerging Adult Sample

Cilali¹,

Erdur-Baker²,

Bugay³

2019

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“…Dialogue on the illness within the family allows an opportunity to share medical information as well as to address many other issues: collecting information on the disease, providing a space for the child to share about the disease from an emotional perspective, and about talking about it with significant others. Within this domain, it is possible to observe how the various dialogical modalities of sharing information and knowledge between caregivers and children, and even brothers and sisters, can respond to specific functions (Sommantico et al, 2017). Each caregiver and family differs in terms of dialogical styles as well as for a greater or lesser ability to accompany their child in the construction of meaning of the path of illness (Clarke et al, 2005).…”

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Caregivers’ Sensemaking of Children’s Hereditary Angioedema: A Semiotic Narrative Analysis of the Sense of Grip on the Disease

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Background and aims: In pediatrics receiving a diagnosis of a chronic condition is a matter that involves caregivers at first. Beyond the basic issues of caring for the physical condition of the ill child, how caregivers face and make sense of the disease orients and co-constructs their children’s sensemaking processes of the disease itself. The aim of this article is to explore the experience of a rare chronic illness, a pediatric case of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) from the caregivers’ perspective. Hereditary angioedema is characterized by subcutaneous swellings that can involve internal as well as external mucosal tissues and is highly variable and unpredictable in terms of severity, frequency, and where it occurs.A qualitative narrative semiotic analysis of n. 28 maternal narratives on their children’s disease experience. Narratives were collected by an ad hoc interview on three domains of the disease experience: (A) interpretation of disease variability, (B) dialogical processes, and (C) management of the disease. Subsequently, we executed a TwoStep cluster analysis for categorical data to detect cross-sectional profiles of the maternal sensemaking processes of the disease.Results: The coding grid was built analyzing the characteristics of the narrative links that orient the connection between the elements of the experience within each domain: (A) the connection among events, for the domain of disease variability interpretation, (B) the connection between self and other, for the dialogue domain, and (C) the connection among sensemaking and actions, for the disease management domain. Results from the cluster analysis show three narrative profiles: (1) adempitive; (2) reactive; (3) dynamic.Discussion: Profiles will be discussed in light of the general conceptual framework of the Sense of Grip on the Disease (SoGoD) highlighting the importance of those sensemaking processes which, instead of relying on a coherent and closed interpretation of the disease, are characterized by a degree of tolerance for uncertainty and the unknown.

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“…The LSRS is a 48-item self-report instrument (Riggio, 2000; Italian adaptation and validation: Sommantico, Donizzetti, De Rosa, & Parrello, 2017) which assesses the feelings, behaviors, and thoughts related to sibling relationships in childhood and adulthood on six subscales: (1) Adult Affect (Items 1-8; Item 6 “reverse keyed”), (2) Adult Behavior (Items 9-16; Item 13 “reverse keyed”), (3) Adult Cognition (Items 17-24; Item 19 “reverse keyed”), (4) Child Affect (Items 25-32; Items 25, 27, and 28 “reverse keyed”), (5) Child Behavior (Items 33-40; Item 38 “reverse keyed”), and (6) Child Cognition (Items 41-48; Item 42 “reverse keyed”). The affective component is operationalized by assessing emotions toward the sibling and the sibling relationship (e.g., “My sibling’s feelings are very important to me”).…”

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Predicting Young Adults’ Romantic Relationship Quality: Sibling Ties and Adult Attachment Styles

Sommantico

Donizzetti

Parrello

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Journal of Family Issues

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Young adults’ romantic relationships have continually emerged as a significant area of study in psychological research. The authors examine possible associations between a measure of attitudes toward sibling relationships, a measure of adult attachment styles, and a measure of romantic relationship quality in a sample of 350 Italian university students (68.6% females, 31.4% males; age range 19-30 years, M age = 23.6 years, SD = 3.2). The authors tested the following hypotheses: that the perceived relationship quality between siblings was positively correlated with adult attachment styles and romantic relationship quality, that the frequent use of behaviors associated with adult attachment styles was negatively correlated with romantic relationship quality, and that attitudes toward sibling relationships and adult attachment styles predicted romantic relationship quality. Findings only partly supported the hypotheses, indicating that more positive attitudes toward sibling relationships and lower use of behaviors associated with avoidant attachment style influenced and predicted higher romantic relationship quality.

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Young adults’ sibling relationships: Italian adaptation and validation of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale

Cited by 17 publications

References 72 publications

The Reliability and Validity of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale in a Turkish Emerging Adult Sample

The Reliability and Validity of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale in a Turkish Emerging Adult Sample

Caregivers’ Sensemaking of Children’s Hereditary Angioedema: A Semiotic Narrative Analysis of the Sense of Grip on the Disease

Predicting Young Adults’ Romantic Relationship Quality: Sibling Ties and Adult Attachment Styles

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