The current study examined the respective role of stepfamily members' individual characteristics and their dyadic relationships in stepfamily members' perceptions of mattering to one another. Parents, stepparents, and adolescents from 86 stepfamilies participated. Applying social relations model analyses, several trends emerged regarding the relative importance of individual and dyadic factors. Parents' and adolescents' reports of mattering to one another were mainly driven by individual factors, whereas relational factors were important to understand the reports of mattering in which the stepparent was one of the dyad members. These findings contribute to stepfamily research by highlighting that stepfamily members' sense of belonging is at least partly a function of the interpersonal adaptation between the stepparent and other family members.

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继母家庭中的重要问题：社会关系模型分析

当前的研究检验了继父家庭成员的个体特征及其亲缘关系在继父家庭成员彼此之间的相互关系中的各自作用。来自86个继亲家庭的父母，继父母和青少年参加了比赛。应用社会关系模型分析，关于个人因素和二元因素的相对重要性出现了几种趋势。父母和青少年关于彼此关系的报告主要由个人因素驱动，而关系因素对于理解继父母是双亲成员之一的关系报告很重要。这些发现通过突出继父成员的