2022
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13857
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Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence

Abstract: This longitudinal study examined the reciprocal associations between paternal and maternal rejection and firstborn children's (Mage = 49.9 months; 55% boys) behavior problems across the transition to siblinghood in a sample of 120 families recruited from 2016 to 2018 from Shanghai, China. Parental rejection and behavior problems were assessed before (prenatal) and 1, 6, and 12 months after the birth of a baby sibling. Random intercept cross‐lagged panel models revealed positive relations between internalizing … Show more

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“…Fourth, we focused only on parental characteristics, and did not consider children’s characteristics such as temperament and interparental relationship factors such as coparenting and marital relationships, which may be also associated with sibling jealousy (Volling et al, 2010). In addition, it is possible that the paternal and maternal factors may interact together to influence children’s sibling jealousy (Chen & Volling, 2022; Volling et al, 2020). For example, when the father is depressed, the mother has to do more care work and experiences higher levels of parental burnout (e.g., Chen et al, 2022), as a result, leading to more parental neglect, which consequently results in more sibling jealousy.…”
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“…Fourth, we focused only on parental characteristics, and did not consider children’s characteristics such as temperament and interparental relationship factors such as coparenting and marital relationships, which may be also associated with sibling jealousy (Volling et al, 2010). In addition, it is possible that the paternal and maternal factors may interact together to influence children’s sibling jealousy (Chen & Volling, 2022; Volling et al, 2020). For example, when the father is depressed, the mother has to do more care work and experiences higher levels of parental burnout (e.g., Chen et al, 2022), as a result, leading to more parental neglect, which consequently results in more sibling jealousy.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The first aim of the current study, using a latent growth curve model, was to identify patterns of firstborn children's sibling jealousy change over the course of the year after the birth of a sibling in China. Based on prior studies on the development of various types of adjustment problems during the transition to siblinghood (e.g., Chen & Volling, 2022;Volling et al, 2017), we expected there would be four trajectory patterns (low stable, high stable, linear increase, and adjustment and adaptation response).…”
Section: The Current Studymentioning
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“…Since China’s gradual implementation of the relaxed population policy (e.g., a two-child policy, which allows couples to have two children) in the past several years, millions of Chinese parents now have two or more children. After many decades of single-child families, parents are now enjoying family life with more than one child, but they now face more challenges given that the birth of one or more siblings makes the family system more complex (Chen, Ning, & Lv, 2022; Chen & Volling, 2023; Kreppner, 1988; Volling, 2012). The issue of how to treat children equally in the same family (or “to hold a bowl of water level,” which is a commonly used saying in China) is one of the challenges Chinese parents may encounter (Chen, Shen, et al, 2022).…”
Section: Positive Parent–parent Subsystemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Resource depletion theory focus on resource depletion as a pathway through which children of lower birth orders may receive increased resources and investment compared to subsequent siblings (Stannard et al, 2019). While other studies holds that first-born children's security may be threatened by disruptions to normal family life, and they may thus exhibit worry, anxiety, depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior more easily than second-born children (Buhrmester and Furman, 1990;Chen and Volling, 2023). And from Adler's ethological/analytic perspective, parents' tendencies to overindulge younger siblings is linked to the dethronement of the first-born, who is then more sensitive to the dynamics of the marital relationship, so marital conflict or intimacy may have a great impact on eldest siblings (McHale et al, 2012).…”
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