A Comparative Study of the Only and Non-Only Child

Guilford, R. B.; Worcester, D. A.

doi:10.1080/08856559.1930.10532273

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“…While research studies in this area customarily differentiate only from oldest children (Guilford & Worcester, 1930), the two groups are considered in combination here. Although the pattern of sibling interaction is categorically different in the two cases, there are critical similarities with respect to the particular variables of parent-child interaction with which the present study is directly concerned.…”

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Imitative behavior in preschool children.

McDavid¹

1959

Psychological Monographs: General and Applied

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The concept of imitation is of direct interest to psychologists in several areas. Behavior which is patterned after a model set by some external figure constitutes a notable portion of human activity and operates as a critical mechanism in certain complex behavior. The phenomenon of social learning, possible in the human organism because of elaborate skills of communication, enables man to profit by observation of others around him and thus to short-circuit the long-and tedious process of learning only through direct experience. This mechanism, especially in early childhood development, often derives from imitation. An older or more experienced person frequently serves as a guide for behavior before the imitating organism can "read" environmental cues for himself and behave independently in response to those cues. In later stages, the behavior of others serves to expose the imitator or direct his attention to relevant environmental cues. Miller and Dollard (1941) have proposed an analysis of imitation and social learning by synthesizing elements of Hullian learning theory with empirical observations of human social behavior. A series of experimental laboratory studies, using both animals and children, served initially to document their theoretical analysis. Several more recent experiments (Church, 1957;Schein, 1954;Solomon & Coles, 1954;Wilson, 1958) have further explored the implications of their basic hypotheses. ^£",~ The present study is designed to explore, "within a framework comparable to that em-1 The author is indebted to David H. Crowd! for handling the administration of the Parental Practices Research Scale, to Ruth Updcgraff, Rosalind Gold, and Nancy Mann for making available data from uncompleted M. A. research, and lo June Naumann for her assistance as an experimenter and experimental leader.

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Section: Imitative Behavior and The Siblingmentioning

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Imitative behavior in preschool children.

McDavid¹

1959

Psychological Monographs: General and Applied

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“…At any rate, that has been either the explicit only children*Kad the best and KaSTtBe'^^^t. percentage'" wj^'jtsUjSoSlsF m * s ^Sr m^earToHrTMlrtner contradicting"*tne"B~o-"hanriM study, Guilford and Worcester (13) obtained teachers' ratings on an 8A class of the Lincoln Junior High School, Nebraska, and found that the only children excelled in ratings on such items as truthfulness, self-control, and conformity to law and order. The critical ratios reported are significant at the lo-per-cent level.…”

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Delinquency and only children: study of a "category."

Wattenberg¹

1949

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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“…Guilford and Worcester (30) have reported the personality traits of 21 only and 141 other eighth-grade children whom they studied. The only children of their group were definitely superior in personal orderliness, cleanliness, initiative, self-control, industry, truthfulness, dependability, and courtesy.…”

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