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Growth in Emotion Understanding across Early Childhood: A Cohort-Sequential Model of Firstborn Children across the Transition to Siblinghood
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Tan, Lin; Volling, Brenda L.; Gonzalez, Richard; LaBounty, Jennifer; Rosenberg, Lauren – Child Development, 2022
Emotion understanding develops rapidly in early childhood. Firstborn children (N = 231, 55% girls/45% boys, 86% White, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Latinx, Mage = 29.92 months) were recruited into a longitudinal study from 2004 to 2008 in the United States and administered a series of tasks assessing eight components of young children's emotion…
Descriptors: Child Development, Emotional Development, Siblings, Family Structure
Birth Order Effects on Early Language Development: Do Secondborn Children Learn from Overheard Speech?
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Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Compared language development of 16 firstborn and 16 secondborn children at 21 months to investigate whether secondborn children benefit from overheard conversations between caregivers and older siblings. Found that secondborn children were more advanced that firstborn in pronoun production, while not differing general language development,…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Caregiver Speech, Comparative Analysis, Experiential Learning
Variation in Vocabulary Development as a Function of Birth Order.
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Pine, Julian M. – Child Development, 1995
Investigated birth-order differences in children's early vocabulary development. Compared the composition and age of acquisition of the first 50 and 100 words of 9 firstborns and their younger siblings, using a longitudinal maternal diary methodology. A small but significant birth-order effect was found for the age at which the 50-word milestone…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Individual Differences