TY - JOUR
T1 - Infant-sibling communication
T2 - Relationships to birth-spacing and cognitive and linguistic development
AU - Gibbs, Elizabeth D.
AU - Teti, Douglas M.
AU - Bond, Lynne A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Lynne A. Bond and Douglas M. Teti. partial fulfillment of the requirements Vermont. A preliminary report of this for Research in Child Development, Correspondence and requests for ics and Child Development Center, a University of Vermont Institutional This article is based 0~1 work submitted for the doctoral degree in psychology research was presented at the biennial Toronto, Canada, April, 1985. reprints should be sent to Elizabeth D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center,
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PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - Infant-sibling communication and its relationship to birth-spacing and linguistic and intellectual development were examined. Forty-four dyads of siblings spaced 1-6 years apart were visited when the infants were 12, 12 1 2, 17 1 2, and 18 months old. Measures of both siblings' linguistic and intellectual level were obtained at 12- and 18-month visits. Ten-min videotapes of infant-sibling interaction were obtained at 12 1 2 and 17 1 2 months. Analyses revealed that members of widely-spaced dyads directed more social behaviors to each other, engaged in more interactive bouts, and had more sustained bouts. Infants were more responsive to widely-spaced than closely-spaced firstborns. Siblings' social behaviors were highly interrelated but not related to their partners' linguistic or intellectual level. The amount of time infants spent with their mothers or siblings decreased with increasing birth-spacing, suggesting that any benefit of the more extensive interaction between widely-spaced siblings may be offset by their less frequent contact.
AB - Infant-sibling communication and its relationship to birth-spacing and linguistic and intellectual development were examined. Forty-four dyads of siblings spaced 1-6 years apart were visited when the infants were 12, 12 1 2, 17 1 2, and 18 months old. Measures of both siblings' linguistic and intellectual level were obtained at 12- and 18-month visits. Ten-min videotapes of infant-sibling interaction were obtained at 12 1 2 and 17 1 2 months. Analyses revealed that members of widely-spaced dyads directed more social behaviors to each other, engaged in more interactive bouts, and had more sustained bouts. Infants were more responsive to widely-spaced than closely-spaced firstborns. Siblings' social behaviors were highly interrelated but not related to their partners' linguistic or intellectual level. The amount of time infants spent with their mothers or siblings decreased with increasing birth-spacing, suggesting that any benefit of the more extensive interaction between widely-spaced siblings may be offset by their less frequent contact.
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U2 - 10.1016/0163-6383(87)90019-1
DO - 10.1016/0163-6383(87)90019-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040266090
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 10
SP - 307
EP - 323
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 3
ER -