Playing Well with others in kindergarten The benefit of siblings at home

Playing Well with others in kindergarten: The benefit of siblings at home

Our team 6 has a big challenge to discuss the article

named “Playing Well with others in kindergarten: The benefit of siblings at home”, which makes us have to study 18 pages in English. But definitely, as a children or a future mother/father, we are interested in theses common questions ： Do association between social skills and sibship size? Do children with more siblings exhibit better social and interpersonal skills than children with fewer siblings? Maybe you will agree a perspective of “Resource Dilution theory”(资源稀释理论)from Dr Blake and Dr Downey, because your sister or brother get too much love , time or money from your parents. You were envy and did badly in how to get along with others.

On opposite, you may support the view of “siblings as Resources” by MacKinnon,Brody,&Stoneman,which states

children can promote interpersonal skills from the presence of brothers and sisters.

Despite countless argument, the author finally gain some results by looking into more than 20000 children from different family, different country .He not only set a series of tests but also control some variables ,so as to decrease the standard error. There are 5 tables telling us how to analysis these data and gain conclusion. Although all of us feel difficult to make out what these data means at the beginning, we finally work it out by paying more time, looking into websites, turning to Dr Tao and learning from each other. All our members are pride to accomplish this article in such a short time. Surely, we still need to correct some shortages to improve our speech and PPT. Here are some main conclusions according to the research: 1. Children are rated as exhibiting better social and interpersonal skills when they have at least one sibling.（大多情况下，至少有一个兄弟姐妹的孩子在社交技能方面会比较好。） 2. Children with one sibling, two or three siblings(最好不要超过三个) as having better interpersonal skills than those with no siblings. Tips:

p值是指零博士胜出的概率，a值规定的水平值0.05。如果

p<0.05，则你的假设是正确的，反之，则错误。

covariant：协变量。是指本文里控制的变量，如样本的来源（被测试的小孩），要控制他们是来自一个家庭条件，和谐度，肤色，宗教信仰差不多的背景。

还有里面要检测两者间的关系而出现的正负系数，和我们学过的正相关，负相关差不多。如：兄弟姐妹数量和行为问题的关系，如one sibling( vs. none)是-0.095则说明有一个兄弟比独生出现更少的行为问题（如自我为中心）。

If you take a interest in the topic, you can listen carefully when our team is showing our study or you can learn by yourself.