Overview
- Highlights a cutting-edge body of laboratory research on infants’ and young children’s reactions to favoritism
- Details clinical implications for helping practitioners advise parents on child reactions to a sibling’s arrival
- Discusses variations in presentations of jealousy in accordance with predictors that represent protective and risk influences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Child Development (BRIEFSCD)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
Keywords
- Child mental health and jealousy
- Developmental psychopathology
- Expectant siblings
- Infant mental health and jealousy
- Infants and jealousy
- Infants’ development of jealousy
- Infants’ response to differential treatment
- Jealousy protest in infants
- Parent-offspring conflict
- Sibling arrival and infant jealousy
- Sibling rivalry and infant jealousy
About this book
This Brief synthesizes findings from recent experiments on jealousy in infants with insights from pioneering thinkers in developmental science. It discusses attachment issues, status of jealousy as an emotion and as a feature of temperament, underpinnings in social cognition, the development of adaptive versus maladaptive presentations, and facets of jealousy that may be part of a normal repertoire of coping strategies. This unique volume also identifies facial, vocal, and bodily responses associated with jealousy as well as situations of differential treatment by caregivers that may bring them about. This knowledge is as useful in studying children's emotional development as it is in addressing jealousy-based challenges in growing families.
Among the featured topics:
- Jealousy in infants, defended and defined.
- A theory of jealousy as temperament.
- Sadness, anger, fear, and love.
- Individual differences and normativity.
- Child and contextual influences on individual differences.
- Implications for clinical intervention: preparing for a sibling's arrival.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jealousy in Infants
Book Subtitle: Laboratory Research on Differential Treatment
Authors: Sybil L. Hart
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10452-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10451-5Published: 26 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10452-2Published: 12 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 57
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology