Birth Order: A Phenomenon in Search of an Explanation. [Report No.: RB-72-20

Autor/inn/en	McGurk, Harry; Lewis, Michael
Institution	Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.
Titel	Birth Order: A Phenomenon in Search of an Explanation. [Report No.: RB-72-20
Quelle	(1972), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Birth Order; Bulletins; Child Development; Child Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Emotional Development; Family Structure; Mother Attitudes; Nursery Schools; Parent Child Relationship; Research; Sex Differences; Siblings; Social Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geburtenfolge; Kindesentwicklung; Kinderpsychologie; Entwicklungspsychologie; Gefühlsbildung; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Mutterliebe; Nursery school; Kindertagesstätte; Kindergarten; Vorschule; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Forschung; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Sibling; Geschwister; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten
Abstract	Fifty-two 44-month-old children were observed in a nursery school over a period of two weeks with peer and adult oriented behaviors recorded, and data analyzed in terms of the subjects' sex and birth order. Sex effects were as expected, but birth-order effects highlighted the second-born child as representing a distinct category. In particular, second-born children manifested greater dependency behavior than either first- or later-borns. The results are discussed in terms of the relationship between maternal responsiveness to attention-seeking behavior in infancy and later dependency behavior; i.e., parental responsiveness leads to less not more dependency behavior in later childhood. It is suggested that because the second-born child receives less attention in infancy, he later exhibits more dependency behavior. (Author/LH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01