Sibship-Constellation Effects on Psychosocial Development, Creativity, and Health

Wagner, Mazie Earle; Schubert, Herman J. P.; Schubert, Daniel

doi:10.1016/s0065-2407(08)60113-5

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“…Both McDonald (1982) and Smith (1970) investigated the effects of family size and birth order on perceived parental power; both failed to find significant main effects of these variables. On the other hand, contrary to some previous findings (see Wagner et al 1979;LaRossa 1977). Lueptow (1980) found that larger family size (number of children) was associated with increased perceptions of maternal power, but not associated with perceptions of paternal power.…”

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Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Power: Do Family Size and Ordinal Position of the Child Make a Difference?*

1990

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The literature suggests that parent‐child interactions differ in relation to both birth order and family size. There are arguments in the literature concerning whether observed effects should be attributed to structural factors or to such demographic variables as SES and parental education. The present research attempts to deal with some of the theoretical questions and methodological problems encountered in determining mediators of birth order and parental interaction effects. Reports of parental involvement, or indices of such involvement, in 34 interaction areas were collected from 189 Iranian high school students from families of at least 2 children, and were analyzed using multiple regression procedures. In general, results showed birth order effects were mediated by size of family. Respondents from ‘small’ families (of 2–4 children) differed from those from larger families. In large families, first‐borns had the most paternal (or the least maternal) orientations. In small families, last‐boms had the most paternal (least maternal) orientations. Middle‐borns were not significantly different from the first‐boms in small or in large families. It is concluded that further cross‐cultural studies of differential parental interaction with different birth orders are needed before a theoretical framework can be offered to explain birth order effects.

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Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Power: Do Family Size and Ordinal Position of the Child Make a Difference?*

1990

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“…The general conclusion that smaller families are associated with higher academic and occupational achievement (Marjoribanks, 1976) is not usually qualified by reference to sex composition of siblings. The review by Wagner et al, (1979) of 'siblingconstellation effects' devotes only one paragraph (out of 56 pages) to sex of sibling, and that is in a subsection on Parent-Child Relations.…”

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Gender Salience and Social Identity: The Impact of Sex of Siblings on Educational and Occupational Aspirations

Abrams

Sparkes

Hogg

1985

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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SUMMARY.It is proposed that an understanding of sex differences in educational and occupational aspirations of adolescents would benefit from a perspective which stresses gender identification. The social identification approach (Turner, 1982) hypothesises that these differences are a function of the degree of gender identification, which in turn is a function of the salience of sex. According to McGuire and McGuire's (1981) distinctiveness postulate, gender becomes more salient as the number of opposite sex siblings increases. In order to explore these gender salience effects 81 male and female sixth form pupils completed a questionnaire concerning their self-perceptions, examination peiformance, occupational choice, and comparisons with members ofeach sex. Large sex differences were obtained, showing that educational and occupational ambitions were inhibited among females. Correlational analyses revealed that number of opposite sex siblin s was more closely related to responses than were number of same sex, or total number of siblings. In particular, females' choice of science 0-levels decreased as number of brothers increased. The results are taken to suggest that sex of sibling effects have an intergroup dimension which should be the focus of further research.

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“…Psychologists from a variety of backgrounds, including both clinical psychology and behavioural genetics, have argued that sibling relationships in childhood may play an important role in the development of individual differences both in aggression 2ind in a wide range of other aspects of personality, intelligence and achievement (see, for example, Adler, 1982;Brim, 1958;Cicirelli, 1977Cicirelli, , 1978Dunn, 1983;Koch, 1960;Lamb & Sutton-Smith, 1982;Sutton-Smith & Rosenberg, 1970;Wagner, Schubert & Schubert, 1979). Behaviour geneticists have emphasized that siblings differ from one another on measures of personality and intelligence almost as much as do totally unrelated children reared in different families, although they share not only a greater proportion of their genes but also many aspects of the family environment.…”

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Continuities in Sibling Relationships: Patterns of Aggression and Friendliness

Stillwell

Dunn

1985

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Thirteen girls and 12 boys who had been observed at home as 2- to 3-year-olds with their mothers and infant siblings were interviewed as 6-year-olds about their relationship with their siblings; their mothers also were interviewed. The marked individual differences found among the 2- to 3-year-olds in comments about their siblings were correlated with differences in the children's comments about their siblings 3-4 years later, and the differences in their behaviour towards their siblings as 2- to 3-year-olds were correlated with differences in their mothers' accounts of the sibling relationship at the 6-year visits.

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Sibship-Constellation Effects on Psychosocial Development, Creativity, and Health

Cited by 25 publications

References 355 publications

Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Power: Do Family Size and Ordinal Position of the Child Make a Difference?*

Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Power: Do Family Size and Ordinal Position of the Child Make a Difference?*

Gender Salience and Social Identity: The Impact of Sex of Siblings on Educational and Occupational Aspirations

Continuities in Sibling Relationships: Patterns of Aggression and Friendliness

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