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Article Dans Une Revue Psychology, Crime and Law Année : 2005

Birth order an youth delinquent behavior testing the differentiel parental control hypothesis in a French representative sample

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Studies on delinquent behaviour have frequently shown that firstborn children are less involved in delinquency than middle-born children. We suggest that differential parental control of the children depending on their ordinal position might account for this phenomenon. The study, carried out with a French representative sample (n=1129), indicated that firstborns were more supervised than middle-borns. Firstborns reported less minor offences and serious offences than middle-born children. However, when sibship size and parental supervision were controlled in a subsequent analysis of covariance, the effect of ordinal position on serious offences disappeared, whereas the birth-order effect on minor offences declined but remained significant. It is concluded that ordinal position plays a moderate role in delinquent behaviour and that this effect is partly induced by differential parental control.
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halshs-00290279 , version 1 (25-06-2008)

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Sebastian Roché, Laurent Bègue. Birth order an youth delinquent behavior testing the differentiel parental control hypothesis in a French representative sample. Psychology, Crime and Law, 2005, 11, pp.73-85. ⟨halshs-00290279⟩
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