Sibling Relationships: their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Sibling Relationships Across the Lifespan: An Overview and Introduction
	Overview
	Siblings as Agents of Socialization
	Outline of the Volume
	Summary
2. The Effect of the Newborn on the Older Sibling: Mothers' Questionnaires
	Method
	Results
	Discussion
	Concluding Comment
3. Siblings and Their Mothers: Developing Relationships Within the Family
	Introduction
	The Study
	Conclusions
4. Patterns of Sibling Interaction Among Preschool-age Children
	Introduction
	Overview of the Studies
	Conclusion
5. Sibling Relationships in Middle Childhood
	Intrapersonal Experience of Sibling Relationships in Middle Childhood
	Interpersonal Encounters Between Siblings In Middle Childhood
	Siblings as Caretakers
	Pets as Second-Order Modifiers or Sibling Surrogates
	Conclusion
6. Sibling Deidentification and Split-Parent Identification: A Family Tetrad
	Studies in Sibling Deidentification
	Studies of Split-Parent Identification
	Family Tetrad: Structure and Function
7. Birth Order and Sibling Status Effects
	Psychological Primogeniture
	Sibling Status and Sex Role Effects
8. Life Span Personality Stability in Sibling Status
	The Study
	Discussion
9. Important Variables in Adult Sibling Relationships: A Qualitative Study
	Perceived Closeness
	Perceived Sibling Rivalry
	Critical Incidents
	Concluding Remarks
10. Intense Sibling Loyalties
	Loyalty Defined
	How Loyalty is Demonstrated
	Sibling Loyalty: Benefits and Burdens
11. Sibling Influence Throughout the Lifespan
	Existence of the Sibling Relationship
	Nature of the Sibling Relationship
	Sibling Influence
	Conclusions
12. Only Children in America
	The American Context
	Only Children
	Summary and Conclusions
13. Sibling Interdependence and Child Caretaking: A Cross-Cultural View
	Introduction
	Sibling Caretaking During Childhood: Hawaiian and Polynesian Examples
	Functional Allegiances of the Adult Sibling Group: Marriage and Property
	Conclusion
14. Sibling Relationships in Nonhuman Primates
	Introduction
	Some Basic Issues in the Study of Sibling Relationships
	Two Contrasting Approaches to the Study of Sibling Interactions
	Kinship and Social Structure: Who are the Siblings and Who Are the Peers?
	The Development of Sibling Relationships: Two Illustrative Cases
	Implications for Study of Sibling Relationships in Humans
15. Similarities and Differences Among Siblings
	An Overview of the Chapter
	Genetic Sources of Sibling Similarities and Differences
	Environmental Theories of Sibling Differences
	Genotype-Environment Correlations
	Conclusions
Epilogue: Framing the Problem
Author Index
Subject Index