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- The stereotype for only children is that they are selfish, or more self-centered than those with siblings. This stereotype is sometimes used as an argument for having more than one child, but researchers from Germany find there’s no evidence for the claim that only children are more narcissistic than children with sibling.
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10 hours ago · For more than 4 decades, she has studied how siblings, or a lack of siblings, affect a variety of outcomes, including people’s academic achievement, psychological adjustment, and loneliness. Dr. Falbo is an APA fellow and won the 2007 Newman-Proshansky Award from APA’s Division 34, The Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology, for her contributions to the field of ...
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Large-scale research studies have searched for personality...
- Only children are often misunderstood. Take a closer look at ...
Nov 16, 2021 · The negative stereotypes surrounding single children have been around for ages: no matter their circumstances, they are spoilt, inflexible, shy, bossy and antisocial. And decades of thorough...
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Sep 1, 2024 · Large-scale research studies have searched for personality differences between only children and those with siblings, but most have found only minimal effects, if any. “For a long time, people have stereotyped only children as being selfish and egotistical.
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In what might now be called the definitive study of personality comparisons between only children and those with siblings, University of Auckland’s Samantha Stronge and colleagues (2019) embarked on their mission to settle the matter for good. They began their quest with the observation that only children may indeed have a host of potential advanta...
With this background in mind, you might wonder how Stronge and her collaborators could possibly tease out all the potential complexities of discovering how only children differ from their counterparts in multi-child families. To begin with, the authors were able to take advantage of an extensive multiyear probability sample of New Zealand adults, r...
There’s a great deal of reassurance in the New Zealand study that, if you never had anyone with whom to celebrate National Sibling Day, there’s nothing wrong with you. Even if you are sending out the cards and flowers to your siblings, though, does this mean that you’re enjoying a lifelong dividend of a better-adjusted personality than your only-ch...
Nov 1, 2022 · Research doesn’t support the idea that only children are any worse off than those with siblings, but kids as young as 8 (including “onlies” themselves) have still been found to hold...
Oct 23, 2019 · More recent research has shown that being an only child doesn’t necessarily make you different from a peer with siblings. And the lack of a sibling doesn’t doom you to become...
May 17, 2024 · Growing Up Without Siblings: Adult Only Children Speak Out. The benefits and concerns, from those who have lived it. Updated May 17, 2024 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch. Source: Gabriel...
