Sibling relationships as a mediator and a moderator between parental attachment and depression among adolescents
Beibei Kuang, Yujing Zhao, Baojing Zhang, Jue Deng, Huahua Hu, Tong Ge · 2026
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Beibei Kuang and five co-workers wrote a 2026 study on how sibling ties shape the link between parent bonds and teen depression. Past work looked at parent-child ties alone, though siblings are part of the same family web. The team surveyed thousands of adolescents with standard scales. About three thousand cases entered the final analysis.
Stronger parent attachment linked to lower depression scores. Sibling ties both carried part of that effect and altered its strength. Warmth was the sibling trait that mattered as a buffer. Warm siblings softened the tie between weak mother attachment and depression. The father link showed no such buffering.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Beibei Kuang, Yujing Zhao, Baojing Zhang, Jue Deng, Huahua Hu, Tong Ge |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |