Siblings as Effective Socializing Agents: Evidence from Central Mexico

Zukow, Patricia Goldring

doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-3536-1_5

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“…In this respect, siblings appear well equipped to act as caregivers and tutors. Of course, in many different cultures, older siblings are as influential as parents in the socialising process (Zukow, 1989); indeed, in non‐western societies, children and adolescents spend more time with siblings than with parents (Whiting & Edwards, 1988; Updegraff, McHale, Whiteman, Thayer, & Delgado, 2005).…”

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A Longitudinal Study of Conflict and Inner State Talk in Children's Conversations with Mothers and Younger Siblings

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This study examined developmental change and variation across social context in the quality of children's conversations, with a dual focus on (1) conflict and (2) inner state talk (IST). Each measure was coded as a proportion of total talk, using transcripts from 57 three-to six-year-olds, filmed at home at two time points (12 months apart) in two distinct contexts (dyadic play with younger siblings and unstructured routine interactions with mothers). Frequencies of conflict and IST did not change between time points. However, IST changed in function, such that the proportion of IST within explanations increased over time. At each time point: (1) children talked about inner states (especially others' inner states) more often with younger siblings than with mothers; and(2) conflict was more strongly associated with talk about children's own inner states within conversations with mothers (mean r = .46) than with younger siblings (mean r = .02). Together, these findings highlight the need to consider both conflict and IST as relationship-specific constructs.

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A Longitudinal Study of Conflict and Inner State Talk in Children's Conversations with Mothers and Younger Siblings

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“…The role of siblings in early childhood socialization has received much attention over the last 2 decades (e.g., Abramovitch, Corter, & Lando, 1979;Kendrick & Dunn, 1980;Watson-Gegeo & Gegeo, 1989;Weisner, 1987;Weisner & Gallimore, 1977;Zukow, 1989a;Zukow-Goldring, 2002). Developmental research has focused on the role of siblings in children's intellectual development (Zukow, 1989b), and on the role of siblings in children's social and emotional development (Dunn, 1989;Howe & Ross, 1990;Teti & Ablard, 1989;Whiting & Edwards, 1988;Zukow, 1989a).…”

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Cultural Teaching: The Development of Teaching Skills in Maya Sibling Interactions

2002

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Psychology has considered the development of learning, but the development of teaching in childhood has not been considered. The data presented in this article demonstrate that children develop teaching skills over the course of middle childhood. Seventy-two Maya children (25 boys, 47 girls) ranging in age from 3 to 11 years (M = 6.8 years) were videotaped in sibling caretaking interactions with their 2-year-old brothers and sisters (18 boys, 18 girls). In the context of play, older siblings taught their younger siblings how to do everyday tasks such as washing and cooking. Ethnographic observations, discourse analyses, and quantification of discourse findings showed that children's teaching skills increased over the course of middle childhood. By the age of 4 years, children took responsibility for initiating teaching situations with their toddler siblings. By the age of 8 years, children were highly skilled in using talk combined with manual demonstrations, verbal feedback, explanations, and guiding the body of younger learners. Children's developing competence in teaching helped their younger siblings increase their participation in culturally important tasks.

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“…This, combined with adults' workload, may render adult-child play unnecessary. Rather, young children's play is often imitative of and guided by older children's play in some village communities (Farver & Howes, 1993;Gaskins, 1990;Watson-Gegeo & Gegeo, 1989;Zukow, 1989).…”

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Cultural variations in the play of toddlers

Göncü

Mistry

Mosier

2000

International Journal of Behavioral Development

116

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The present study examines differences in the social play of toddlers from four communities. Fourteen children, between the ages of 12 and 24 months, from four cultural communities (San Pedro, Guatemala; Kecioren, Turkey; Dhol-Ki-Patti, India; Salt Lake City, United States) participated in the study. This paper is based on an analysis of data from a larger study, which was designed to examine guided participation between caregivers and toddlers during daily routine activities (Rogoff, Mistry, Göncü, & Mosier, 1993). This study specifically examines episodes of social play which occurred during various activities. We addressed community differences in the occurrence, frequency, partners, and dynamics of social play. We also examined whether or not the kinds (i.e. pretend, object, physical, language, and games) and themes of children’s play varied as a function of the activity (i.e. exploring novel objects, dressing, free activity, and adult conversation) in which the play activities were embedded. The results indicated that social play occurred in each of the four communities, although the frequency and partners of social play presented cultural variations. Also, there were cultural variations in the numbers of children who engaged in the various kinds of play examined. Based on our results we conclude that developmental play theory should be extended to take into account cultural variation.

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Siblings as Effective Socializing Agents: Evidence from Central Mexico

Cited by 49 publications

References 32 publications

A Longitudinal Study of Conflict and Inner State Talk in Children's Conversations with Mothers and Younger Siblings

A Longitudinal Study of Conflict and Inner State Talk in Children's Conversations with Mothers and Younger Siblings

Cultural Teaching: The Development of Teaching Skills in Maya Sibling Interactions

Cultural variations in the play of toddlers

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