Correction to Tucker et al. (2014).

Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(7), Oct 2023, 965; doi:10.1037/fam0001120Reports an error in "Family dynamics and young children’s sibling victimization" by Corinna Jenkins Tucker, David Finkelhor, Heather Turner and Anne M. Shattuck (Journal of Family Psychology, 2014[Oct], Vol 28[5], 625-633). In the original article, several errors were made when describing the results of the second and third columns of Table 2 whereby, in the text of the second paragraph of the” No Victimization Versus Sibling Victimization Groups” section. The corrected texts are present in the erratum. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2014-32430-001). This research examines how family dynamics like interparental conflict, family violence, and quality of parenting are associated with young children’s experiences of sibling victimization. We use nationally representative data from interviews with caregivers of 1,726 children aged 2 to 9 years of age. We hypothesized different family dynamics predictors for a composite of common types of sibling victimization (property, psychological, and mild physical aggression) in comparison to severe physical sibling victimization (victimization that includes physical aggression with a weapon and/or injury). Multinomial regression results showed that sibling victimization in general was associated with negative family dynamics but that children in the severe group had even less parental warmth, poor parental supervision, a...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research