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Cognitive Sensitivity and Child Receptive Vocabulary: A Between- and Within-Family Study of Mothers and Sibling Pairs
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Browne, Dillon T.; Dadashadeh, Sharon; Wade, Mark; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This study examined the association between observed cognitive sensitivity (CS) during family interactions and children's receptive vocabulary for older and younger siblings. Maternal and sibling CS was considered and associations were explored at the family-wide (between-family) and child-specific (within-family) levels of analysis. The…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vocabulary Development, Cognitive Ability, Family Relationship
"Because if You Don't Put the Top On, It Will Spill": A Longitudinal Study of Sibling Teaching in Early Childhood
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Howe, Nina; Della Porta, Sandra; Recchia, Holly; Ross, Hildy – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Naturalistic dyadic sequences of teaching and learning involving older and younger siblings were investigated in 39 middle-class dyads over a 2-year period in early childhood. Siblings were observed during ongoing interactions in the home setting for 6 90-min sessions at both Time 1 (older sibling "M" age = 4.4 years; younger sibling…
Descriptors: Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
Older (but Not Younger) Siblings Facilitate False Belief Understanding.
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Ruffman, Ted; Perner, Josef; Naito, Mika; Parkin, Lindsay; Clements, Wendy A. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Four experiments and an analysis of pooled data from English and Japanese children show a linear increase in understanding false beliefs with number of older siblings; no such effect for children younger than 38 months; no helpful effect of younger siblings at any age; no effect of siblings' gender; and no helpful effect of siblings on a source…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Metacognition
Observed Sibling Interaction: Links With the Marital and the Mother-Child Relationship.
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Erel, Osnat; Margolin, Gayla; John, Richard S. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined whether links between the marital relationship and sibling interaction were directed or mediated by the mother-child relationship. Found that older siblings' negative behavior was linked with negative dimensions of the marital and mother-child relationship. Younger siblings' negative behavior was linked with the mother-child and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Family Environment, Marital Satisfaction
Privileged Treatment of Toddlers: Cultural Aspects of Individual Choice and Responsibility
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Mosier, Christine E.; Rogoff, Barbara – Developmental Psychology, 2003
This study examined the idea that toddlers in some communities are accorded a privileged status in which they are allowed what they want, assumed not yet to "understand" how to cooperate. U.S. middle-class and Guatemalan Mayan mothers and 3- to 5-year-old siblings were observed while the siblings and toddlers (14-20 months) both sought…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Siblings, Mothers, Maya (People)
The Development of Children's Moral Sensibility: Individual Differences and Emotion Understanding.
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Dunn, Judy; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Developmental changes and individual differences in children's conceptions of transgression were studied in 46 children from preschool through 1st grade. Differences in response to moral transgressions in kindergarten were related to mothers' control management and to siblings' friendly behavior in the preschool period, early understanding of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Adjustment