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Objectives
This study examined (a) the effect of childhood maltreatment on the trajectory of emotional closeness with siblings and (b) whether and how a history of childhood maltreatment affects the longitudinal association between emotional closeness with siblings and older adults' psychological well‐being.
Background
Prior studies have suggested that childhood maltreatment may have lasting adverse...