Allen, Danielle;
Flouri, Eirini;
Oliver, Bonamy R;
(2025)
Child social competence, household chaos and parent-child relationships in early childhood: a multilevel twin-sibling design.
European Journal of Developmental Psychology
, 22
(4)
pp. 595-610.
10.1080/17405629.2025.2510952.
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Abstract
Children’s social competence enables the maintenance of social interactions with others and is linked to diverse positive outcomes. Existing studies rarely distinguish shared-family factors that explain differences between families from those that explain social competence differences between siblings. In particular, despite general interest in twins’ social competence, little is known about differences between twins in the same family. In secondary data analyses of 172 families with 6-year-old twins from the Twins Family and Behaviour (TFaB) study, multilevel models considered between-family correlates (demographics, household chaos, ambient maternal positivity and negativity) and within-family correlates (child-specific maternal positivity and negativity) in the prediction of twins’ social competence. Accounting for demographics, twin zygosity and household chaos, only ambient and child-specific maternal negativity were significant predictors. Findings emphasize relative and absolute levels of parental negativity towards children growing up in the same home associated with their social skills in the early school years.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Child social competence, household chaos and parent-child relationships in early childhood: a multilevel twin-sibling design |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17405629.2025.2510952 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2025.2510952 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Social competence; multilevel modelling; siblings; twins; parenting |
| 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/10208196 |
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