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Direct linkJuanjuan Sun; Junsheng Liu; Mowei Liu; Yuemin Feng; Yan Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Despite the fact that the universal two-child policy had a significant impact on family structure and parenting behaviors, there is still a paucity of study on the mechanisms underlying this policy's effects. This study explored the role of social competence and sibling presence in the relationship between maternal warmth and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship
Leach, Jamie; Howe, Nina; DeHart, Ganie – Early Education and Development, 2022
The purpose of the present study was to investigate children's connected communication during play with a sibling and friend from early to middle childhood. Participants included 65 4-year-old focal children at time 1 (T1) and 46 7-year-old focal children at time 2 (T2) who were videotaped at home in separate semi-structured free play sessions…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Friendship, Young Children, Play
Julia Fuoco; Nina Howe; Sandra Della Porta; Hildy S. Ross – Early Education and Development, 2024
This study investigated parents' and siblings' knowledge use during naturalistic teaching episodes in the home. Thirty-seven middle-class families were observed for six 90-minute sessions (siblings aged 4 and 6 years). Parent and sibling teaching sequences were coded for knowledge type (conceptual, procedural), conceptual subcategories (social…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parents as Teachers, Foreign Countries, Siblings
Chunhong Zhu; Yun Hong; Xin Dai; Bin-Bin Chen; Ni Yan – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study extends the understanding of the sibling effect on children's theory of mind (ToM) among Chinese preschoolers by adopting an ecological perspective. The participants were 225 Chinese preschoolers, comprising 100 children with siblings (M[subscript age] = 4.54 years, SD = 1.11, 55 boys) and 125 children without…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Siblings, Theory of Mind
Lin, Xunyi; Liao, Yutong; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: The impact of the newly launched "two-child policy" on young children's social development has not been empirically studied. This study examined the possible mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between parenting styles and social competence in Chinese preschoolers. A sample of only children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Family Size, Social Development
Qian, Guoying; Du, Yuan; Liu, Chunyu; Han, Ruiqi; Luo, Li – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Few studies have examined second-born preschool children's empathy development under China's universal two-child policy. The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in empathy between Chinese preschool children with one older sibling and without siblings. A total of 180 children were purposively sampled from 14…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Empathy, Public Policy, Family Size
Xie, Sha; Wu, Dandan; Liang, Luyao – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Since 2011, China has started to loosen its tight on the One-child Policy (OCP), which has impacted parent's child-rearing beliefs and the provision of home learning environment that constitutes family environment. Utilizing parent-reported data on 4,364 zero- to eight-year-olds from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS, wave…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Profiles, Predictor Variables, Family Structure
