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Peer reviewedDowney, Douglas B. – American Psychologist, 2001
Resource dilution model suggests that as the number of children increases, parental resources for each child decline. Assesses whether resource dilution could explain the effect of siblings on intellectual development tests. Identifies flaws in recent critiques of this position, discussing it as an explanation for why children with few siblings…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Influence, Family Size, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedZajonc, R. B.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979
Discusses the controversy of the relationship between birth order and intellectual performance through a detailed evaluation of the confluence model which assumes that the rate of intellectual growth is a function of the intellectual environment within the family and associated with the special circumstances of last children. (CM)
Descriptors: Birth Order, Children, Evaluation, Family Environment
