Siblings and children's time use in the United States

Fomby, Paula; Musick, Kelly

doi:10.4054/demres.2017.37.49

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“…Throughout childhood and adolescence, siblings are ubiquitous. More than 80% of youth grow up in homes with siblings (McHale, Updegraff, & Whiteman, 2012), and recent time use data indicate that, between the ages of 6 and 12 years, siblings spend up to half of their discretionary hours with each other (Dunifon, Fomby, & Musick, 2017). Clearly, close proximity and daily contact yields many opportunities and avenues for siblings to influence each other.…”

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Associations between perceptions about siblings' development and emerging adults' adulthood attainment

Dayley

Whiteman

Jensen

2019

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Siblings shape each other's attitudes and behaviors during childhood and adolescence; however, it is less clear if siblings continue to influence each other in emerging adulthood. This study investigated the extent to which emerging adults modeled their siblings in domains of adulthood attainment. Participants included 1,750 emerging adults from the United States between the ages of 18 and 29 years. Data were collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Findings showed that perceptions of siblings' adulthood attainment were positively related to emerging adults' development in those same domains. Moreover, the extent to which emerging adults modeled their siblings enhanced these associations; neither birth order nor gender composition moderated these findings. In short, processes of sibling influence continue to be relevant in emerging adulthood.

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Section: Sibling Influence In Emerging Adulthoodmentioning

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Associations between perceptions about siblings' development and emerging adults' adulthood attainment

Dayley

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Jensen

2019

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“…Besides variability in mutual differences of brothers and sisters, we may ask how the pure fact of having/not having a sibling influences a child's cognitive development. Dunifon, Fomby and Musick (2017) base on highly apparent fact -siblings influence each other because they spend time together. In their study, children actively spent about half of their free time with their siblings and another 20% of their time with sibling present (brothers more than sisters; siblings with an age difference within three years more than age-distant siblings).…”

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A Role of Siblings in Perception of Academic Self-Efficacy and Social Support

2019

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An educational efficiency of an individual is strongly and bidirectionally connected with his/her self-perception determined by the unique family system and overall sense of social well-being. The role of parents is obvious and both theoretically and empirically well-researched. Nevertheless, academic self-efficacy may be significantly affected also by siblings, whose role is neglected by theory and research. Our research deals with various specifics of siblings' constellations and their impact on selected dimensions of academic self-efficacy (perception of school success, efficiency, educational dispositions, and ambitions). Our findings proved differences in all observed categories (gender, family order, age-distance) and indicate relative better academic self-efficacy (compared with a sibling) by females and respondents with a brother. Similarly, higher level of academic self-efficacy was detected by older siblings and respondents with a longer age-distance between them and their siblings. Moreover, the research points out the siblings-related specifics of social support perceived from a family. Conclusions are applicable in educational theory as well as in praxis of educational counselling with an intention to support equal opportunities in education and professional development.

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“…Thus, although sibling relationships are in many ways different from non-familial peer associations, the basic processes of social learning that occur among siblings is similar to those that occur among friends, schoolmates, and other peers (Ardelt & Day, 2002;Kelly et al 2011;Needle et al 1986). In particular, the processes of social influence that occur among peers are more likely to apply to siblings that are close in age and of the same sex (Dunifon, Fomby, & Musick, 2017;Rowe & Gulley, 1992). Recognizing that (a) the peer-likeness of a sibling relationship varies by age difference and sex similarity, and that (b) both of those sibling characteristics are exogenous to the sibling relationship, makes it possible to detect the share of sibling resemblance in crime that is due to a social transmission process akin to peer influence.…”

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Using age difference and sex similarity to detect evidence of sibling influence on criminal offending

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Background Sibling resemblance in crime may be due to genetic relatedness, shared environment, and/or the interpersonal influence of siblings on each other. This latter process can be understood as a type of ‘peer effect’ in that it is based on social learning between individuals occupying the same status in the social system (family). Building on prior research, we hypothesized that sibling pairs that resemble peer relationships the most, i.e., same-sex siblings close in age, exhibit the most sibling resemblance in crime. Methods Drawing on administrative microdata covering Finnish children born in 1985–97, we examined 213 911 sibling pairs, observing the recorded criminality of each sibling between ages 11 and 20. We estimated multivariate regression models controlling for individual and family characteristics, and employed fixed-effects models to analyze the temporal co-occurrence of sibling delinquency. Results Among younger siblings with a criminal older sibling, the adjusted prevalence estimates of criminal offending decreased from 32 to 25% as the age differences increased from less than 13 months to 25–28 months. The prevalence leveled off at 23% when age difference reached 37–40 months or more. These effects were statistically significant only among same-sex sibling pairs (p < 0.001), with clear evidence of contemporaneous offending among siblings with minimal age difference. Conclusions Same-sex siblings very close in age stand out as having the highest sibling resemblance in crime. This finding suggests that a meaningful share of sibling similarity in criminal offending is due to a process akin to peer influence, typically flowing from the older to the younger sibling.

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Siblings and children's time use in the United States

Cited by 44 publications

References 20 publications

Associations between perceptions about siblings' development and emerging adults' adulthood attainment

Associations between perceptions about siblings' development and emerging adults' adulthood attainment

A Role of Siblings in Perception of Academic Self-Efficacy and Social Support

Using age difference and sex similarity to detect evidence of sibling influence on criminal offending

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