Chi, Zhaotian;
Malmberg, Lars-Erik;
Flouri, Eirini;
(2023)
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial "contagion" by birth order.
Child Development
10.1111/cdev.14030.
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Abstract
We investigated longitudinal relations between siblings' problem and prosocial behavior, measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, among different sibship sizes in the UK's Millennium Cohort Study. We identified 3436 families with two children and 1188 families with three children. All children (cohort members and their older sibling [OS]) had valid data on behavior at two time points (in 2004 and 2006). Using structural equation model, we found that for internalizing and externalizing problems, OSs (MOS1 = 6.3 years, MOS2 = 9.1 years at T1) exerted a dominant effect on younger siblings (Mage = 3.12 years at T1; 49.7% boys) across sibship sizes. For prosocial behavior, there was OS dominance in two-child families and youngest sibling dominance in three-child families.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial "contagion" by birth order |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.14030 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14030 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179830 |
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