Megan Holmes, professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, was recently awarded a five-year, $3 million National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 grant to develop a first-of-its-kind, rigorously-validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ)—an English and Spanish measure for children and caregivers that captures the quality of sibling relationships through a lens of prosocial interaction.
By moving beyond simplistic measures of conflict or warmth, the SPRQ embraces the complexity of sibling dynamics and identifies key social processes that support child development.
This innovative tool has the potential to advance research and clinical practice by generating actionable insights that can enhance social connection, emotional regulation and overall child wellbeing.
The study team includes Kristen Berg, Adam Perzynski and Laura Voith of Case Western Reserve University; Laurie Kramer of Northeastern University; Kristina Lovato of University of California, Berkeley; and Adam Carle of Children’s Hospital Medical Center.