Participation and sibship size in a skill-development program: a research note.
The behavior of interest in this study was participation or non-participation in a non-school skill-development program carried out in Ottawa, Ontario, for children living in a rent-to-income housing complex. Participant and non-participant children differed sharply only in sibship size; the larger the sibship from which a child came the greater the probability that he or she would participate. The basis for this relationship seems to have been a strong tendency for the probability of a child's participating to increase whenever a brother or sister in the same family participated.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011336:Probability; D011998:Recreation; D012801:Sibling Relations