title: Fighting With Siblings and With Peers Among Urban High School Students.
abstract: Understanding the determinants of fighting is important for prevention efforts. Unfortunately, there is little research on how sibling fighting is related to peer fighting. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between sibling fighting and peer fighting. Data are from the Boston Youth Survey 2008, a school-based sample of youth in Boston, MA. To estimate the association between sibling fighting and peer fighting, we ran four multivariate regression models and estimated adjusted prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals. We fit generalized estimating equation models to account for the fact that students were clustered within schools. Controlling for school clustering, race/ethnicity, sex, school failure, substance use, and caregiver aggression, youth who fought with siblings were 2.49 times more likely to have reported fighting with peers. To the extent that we can confirm that sibling violence is associated with aggressive behavior, we should incorporate it into violence prevention programming.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA rjohnson@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: Renee M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Dustin T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Boston University School of Public Health, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Emily F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Rothman
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Tamika D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Gilreath
authors.affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hemenway
authors.affiliation: Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Beth E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Molnar
authors.affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Azrael
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology*; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adolescents; family violence; physical fighting; risk behaviors; youth violence