| dc.contributor.author | Banks, Nancy Vickrey | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-27T21:17:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-01-27T21:17:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1989-12-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244/14117 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The subjects were 36 mother, infant (aged 11 to 23 months), and older sibling (aged 30 to 79 months) triads. A variation of the Ainsworth (1978) Strange Situation Procedure (Stewart, 1983) was used to assess attachment and caregiving: several measures were used to assess the older sibling's level of empathy and perspective-taking ability. Highly significant correlations were obtained between older sibling's caregiving and infant attachment, � = .69, p<.OOOl, and between sibling's caregiving and level of empathy, � = .70, p<.OOOl. However, caregiving was not significantly related to perspective-taking. The age of the older sibling was found to be related to caregiving (� = .36, p<.03), empathy (� = .51, p<.OOl), and perspectivetaking ability(�= .75, p<.OOOl). These findings suggest that empathy may be a more important factor in child caregiving and infant sibling attachment than perspective-taking ability. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Oklahoma State University | |
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| dc.title | Relationship of Empathy, Perspective-taking Ability, and Caregiving in Young Children to Infant Sibling Attachment | |
| dc.type | text | |
| osu.filename | Thesis-1989-B218r.pdf | |
| osu.accesstype | Open Access | |
| dc.description.department | Family Relations and Child Development | |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
