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Children's Perceptions of "Goodness" and "Badness" in Sibling Roles

Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523

R. Brooke Jacobsen

Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523

Perceptions of "goodness" and "badness" in sibling roles were investigated in a cross- sectional study of second-born children aged 5-13 years. The study focused on changes in descriptions of these sibling role concepts as a function of age of child, sex of child, sibling status of child, and age-spacing between siblings. Results indicated that a "good" sibling was perceived in different terms than a "bad"sibling, and these descriptions varied with increasing age. Sex of sibling and degree of age-spacing between siblings produced markedly different perceptions of the role concepts. Results are discussed in relation to the degree of a child's ex perience with an older sibling.

(Home Economics Research Journal, March 1980, Vol. 8, No. 4)

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4, 274-280 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8000800406


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