1. Gender-related personality traits and interpersonal resource exchange among brother-sister relationships
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Janeen L. Armm, Marlana A. Rugg, Karen Feldman, Andy Law, Stanley O. Gaines, Nancy Yum, Sarah E. Zemore, and John M. Underhill
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congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,Social Psychology ,Resource exchange ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Agency (philosophy) ,Interpersonal communication ,Sister ,Brother ,Developmental psychology ,Anthropology ,Affection ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Big Five personality traits ,Life-span and Life-course Studies ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Brother-sister relationships are understudied within the field of personal relationships. Accordingly, the present study examines patterns of interpersonal resource exchange (drawing upon resource exchange theory; Foa & Foa, 1974), along with influences of gender-related personality traits (i.e., agency and communion) on individuals’giving of interpersonal resources (i.e., affection and respect), among 79 brother-sister pairs. Consistent with predictions, brothers’and sisters’exchanges of both affection and respect were positive and significant. Also, consistent with predictions, communion was a positive and significant predictor of respectful behavior among sisters. However, contrary to hypotheses, communion did not achieve or approach significance as a predictor of respectful behavior among brothers, nor did communion achieve or approach significance as a predictor of affectionate behavior among sisters or brothers Implications for the study of male-female relationships in general—and brother-sister relationships in particular—are discussed.
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- 1999
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