When Does Parents’ Differential Treatment Have Negative Implications for Siblings?

By S. McHale, K. Updegraff, Julia Jackson-Newsom, C. Tucker, A. Crouter. 2000

199 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Choosing Daughters: Exploring Why Mothers Favor Adult Daughters over Sons (2006, background): “…that used by developmental psychologists—including Dunn and colleagues (Dunn 1988; Dunn and Kendrick 1982; Dunn and Plomin 1990) and McHale and colleagues (McHale et al. 2000; McHale, Crouter, and Tucker 1999)— to study within-family differences among siblings in earlier stages of the life course.”
• Origins and Development of Morality (2015, background): “Parental differential treatment is particularly deleterious when it pertains to warmth as compared to perceived parental involvement or expectations regarding household chores (McHale et al., 2000).”
• Within-Family Differences in Parent–Child Relations Across the Life Course (2008, background): “However, perceptions of fairness can have detrimental consequences as well, such as when these perceptions lead unfavored children to feel that they deserve less affection from their parents than do their siblings (McHale et al., 2000).”