Having a brother or sister can make us better and more sensitive and growing with each other can play an important role in the development of a child. This is what emerges from a recent joint research by the University of Calgary, the Canadian University of Laval, the University of Tel Aviv and that of Toronto, according to which children who have brothers and sisters are polite, warm and supportive and grow much more sensitive about single children.
Likewise, the older brothers and sisters play an important role in the lives of minors and, together with their parents, act as models, helping children learn about the world. "Our findings underline the importance of considering how all family members, not just parents, contribute to the development of children," suggests Sheri Madigan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Calgary and co-author of the study.
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To reach these conclusions, scholars took into consideration a group of 452 pairs of children aged 18 months to four, including all combinations: the older brother and younger brother, the older brother and sister, the older sister and the younger brother, the older sister and the youngest sister.
The aim was to find out whether the level of sensitivity of the brothers at the beginning of the study could predict changes in the sensitivity of other brothers. That is why researchers filmed interactions in family homes, and mothers completed questionnaires to write the answers of their older children to situations that required a certain sensitivity involvement, such as responding to a parent who simulated a physical pain, or a sad adult.
At the end of the observation period, the older brothers and sisters who had begun to associate with the little ones of the family were much more sensitive than at the beginning of the experiment. At the end of the observation period, the older brothers and sisters who had begun to associate with the little ones of the family were much more sensitive than at the beginning of the experiment. Moreover, "the effects are the same for all children in study with one exception: smaller brothers and sisters do not contribute to significant changes in the sensitivity of older sisters," said Marc Jambon of the University of Toronto. The impact of older brothers and sisters was finally stronger in families, where the age difference among children was greater, confirming the role of big brothers, such as the "teachers" and the models to follow .
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