Sibling comparisons, sibling relationship quality, and perceived sport competence in young athletes.

Siblings are overlooked, yet potentially meaningful social agents in youth sport. To better understand the role of siblings in youth sport, we examined the association between sibling sport-referenced comparisons, relationship qualities, and perceived sport competence. The tendency to make sibling comparisons was expected to be positively related to sport competence perceptions and this association was further expected to be moderated by markers of sibling relationship quality. Participants were 47 sport-involved sibling dyads that included older siblings (25 female, 22 male, M

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests. Given their role as an Editorial Board Member Smith A.L., had no involvement in the peer-review of this article and had no access to information regarding its peer-review. We have no known conflict of interest to disclose. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.