Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic.

Author team: Claire Hughes, Luca Ronchi, Sarah Foley, Caoimhe Dempsey, Serena Lecce & the I-Fam Covid Consortium.

Read the full paper, here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12668

What we did

'Siblings in lockdown' looks at the adjustment of young children from six countries during the pandemic.

We did this research with children in Australia, China, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the USA.

What we found out

We found a 'buffering effect' of having an older sibling: only-children and children with younger siblings had more problems than children with at least one older sibling.

Read the full paper

Read the full paper, here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12668

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