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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"sibling rivalry"”.
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Sibling rivalry in black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)
Chicks of several species compete with their siblings for parental provisioning of resources and care. This competition is mainly manifested by begging or food hoarding and in only few species, as in the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) direct aggression between the offspring is present.. …
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A study of sibling rivalry in fifty pre-school children
… out in an attempt to assess the influence on sibling rivalry of maternal attitudes, family composition and the child's perceptions of family relations. Maternal attitudes and the child's attitude towards parents were not related to sibling rivalry. Rivalry was significantly higher following …
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A case study on sibling rivalry and the use of a social skills training model
… child to enhance the relationship with her siblings. The social skills sessions focused on factors such warmth, rivalry, conflict and status/power between the two siblings. These were measured by the Sibling Rivalry Questionnaire which the mother filled out before the sessions began and …
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Rewriting Christina Rossetti : cross-gendered sibling rivalry, fraternal intervention and the counter-poetics of dissidence
… poet against a covertly competitive backdrop of sibling rivalry, in which Dante Gabriel made strenuous efforts to direct and control her creative work. This thesis also examines and challenges the myths that William Michael set in motion as his sister's initial editor and biographer, and which …
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Junkballer
… make up some ground in this probably unwinnable sibling rivalry is to start by getting a Division One scholarship. That, and nothing less. <em>Junkballer</em> is a short novel told from the perspective of Roger over the course of his junior-to-senior year summer as he tries achieving this goal, …
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Effects of Exposure to Parental Divorce on the Sibling Relationship in Emerging Adults
Despite divorce's deleterious effects on child siblings and the importance of sibling support across the lifespan, little is known about how parental divorce affects sibling relationships in emerging adulthood. An Internet study investigated how emerging adults' sibling relationships are impacted …
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The emotional radioactivity behind conflict in psychoanalytic institutions
… 6). The preliminary findings indicates that ‘sibling rivalry’ and complicated relations during training as one source of conflict in psychoanalytic institutions, and are further investigated in the empirical research presented in Chapter 7, using the psychoanalytically informed research …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… theories of unequal parental investment, sibling rivalry, and generational conflict to explain the motivations of the characters. This thesis enters the critical conversation started by Joseph Carroll, E.O. Wilson, Stephen Pinker, Brian Boyd, and others about the relationship between …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… theories of unequal parental investment, sibling rivalry, and generational conflict to explain the motivations of the characters. This thesis enters the critical conversation started by Joseph Carroll, E.O. Wilson, Stephen Pinker, Brian Boyd, and others about the relationship between …
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Essays on human capital investments in developing countries
… decision. Findings point to the existence of sibling rivalry due to resource constraints; children with more siblings, and children in poor households, are less likely to eat high-quality food. Children with higher abilities are less likely to share a nutritional supplement with another family …
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A Comparison of Kinetic Family Drawings of Firstborn and Second-Born Siblings
… research on developmental issues and how siblings draw their families is lacking. The purpose of this study was to (a) describe the way siblings perceive themselves and their family interpersonal relationships as expressed in the KFD; and (b) to describe possible developmental age …
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The Chinese in the Philippine economy, 1898-1941 : a study of their business achievements and limitations
… family businesses have internal problems like sibling rivalry and succession, they tended to compete fiercely among themselves in price term in over-crowded lines of commerce. All of them, as members of a comparatively economically successful but politically powerless alien minority community, …
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The Chinese in the Philippine economy, 1898-1941 : a study of their business achievements and limitations
… family businesses have internal problems like sibling rivalry and succession, they tended to compete fiercely among themselves in price term in over-crowded lines of commerce. All of them, as members of a comparatively economically successful but politically powerless alien minority community, …
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Intrabrood Dominance Hierarchies in Juvenile Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers: The Role of Early Social Environment On Post-Fledging Survival and Natal Dispersal
… over their sisters. Conflict rates among siblings increased with decreasing targeted feeding rates, and dominant fledglings were able to secure more food from provisioning adults through scramble competition. First-year survival favored males over females and dominant males over …
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Reproductive Ecology of Greater Sandhill Cranes in Nevada
… in cranes. Our findings are inconsistent with sibling competition as a major source of colt mortality, but support extrinsic factors as important determinants of survival. Our results suggest that management of predator populations may influence fledging for cranes in northeast Nevada.