1st Edition
Sibling Relationships their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan
416 Pages
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Psychology Press
416 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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First published in 1982. Since the emergence of developmental psychology early this century, theorists and researchers have emphasized the family’s role in shaping the child’s emergent social style, personality, and cognitive competence. In so doing, however, psychologists have implicitly adopted a fairly idiosyncratic definition of the family— one that focuses almost exclusively on parents and... Read more
1 Sibling Relationships Across the Lifespan: An Overview and Introduction 2. The Effect of the Newborn on the Older Sibling: Mothers Questionnaires 3 Siblings and Their Mothers: Developing Relationships Within the Family 4 Patterns of Sibling Interaction Among Preschool-age Children 5 Sibling Relationships in Middle Childhood 6 Sibling Deidentification and Split-Parent Identification: A Family Tetrad 7 Birth Order and Sibling Stability Effects8 Life Span Personality Stability in Sibling Status 9 Important Variables in Adult Sibling Relationships: A Qualitative Study 10. Intense Sibling Loyalties 11. Sibling Influence Throughout the Lifespan 12. Only Children in America 13. Sibling Interdependence and Child Caretaking: A Cross-Cultural View 14. Sibling Relationships in Nonhuman Primates 15 Similarities and Differences between Siblings; Epilogue: Framing the Problem
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Edited by M. E. Lamb (University of Utah), Brian Sutton-Smith (University of Pennsylvania)
