Journal Title
Title of Journal: Child Ind Res
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Abbravation: Child Indicators Research
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Deniz Yucel Anastasia Vogt Yuan
Publish Date: 2014/08/30
Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 671-697
Abstract
Most prior research on siblings has focused on the quantity of siblings and explored siblings’ effects on educational and cognitive outcomes In this study we analyze data on around 4000 1015 years olds from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study UKHLS to test the effects of sibship size childsibling relationship quality and other sibling characteristics eg sibling type and birth order on two outcomes educational aspirations and socioemotional development The results suggest that sibship size has no effect on either outcome Sibling relationship quality however has a significant and positive effect on socioemotional development Lastly adolescents with adopted or foster siblings are less likely to aspire for college whereas adolescents with half and stepsiblings and those with younger siblings are more likely to have lower socioemotional development Overall these results appear to indicate that sibling characteristics and relationship quality influence adolescents’ wellbeing more than the quantity of siblings does
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