Rowe D C, Rodgers J L, Meseck-Bushey S
School of Family and Consumer Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721.
Child Dev. 1992 Feb;63(1):59-67. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb03595.x.
Few family studies of delinquency have focused on siblings. We use a sibling research design to evaluate shared (i.e., family) and unshared environmental influences on delinquency. The 15-22-year-old adolescent siblings were nationally representative, and uniquely, in families of 2 to 4 siblings. No unshared family environmental influences were found for sisters and for mixed-sex siblings, but they may exist for brothers. The data suggested substantial shared environmental and/or shared genetic influences for siblings: the median sibling correlations, averaged over family sizes, were: brothers, r = .30; sisters, r = .28, and mixed sex, r = .21.
很少有关于青少年犯罪的家庭研究关注兄弟姐妹。我们采用兄弟姐妹研究设计来评估共同（即家庭）和非共同环境对犯罪的影响。15至22岁的青少年兄弟姐妹具有全国代表性，且独特之处在于他们来自有2至4个兄弟姐妹的家庭。未发现姐妹以及不同性别的兄弟姐妹存在非共同家庭环境影响，但兄弟可能存在这种影响。数据表明兄弟姐妹之间存在显著的共同环境和/或共同基因影响：按家庭规模平均计算，兄弟姐妹之间的中位数相关性为：兄弟，r = 0.30；姐妹，r = 0.28，不同性别，r = 0.21。
