When Toddlers Provide Care: Infants' Companion Space

Studies of children across cultures and rearing environments reveal that some toddlers offer help and comfort to children in need or distress, while other toddlers are indifferent or even elevate the child's distress. Elements of an explanatory account of prosociality are proposed in terms of a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Childhood (Copenhagen, Denmark) Denmark), 1996-11, Vol.3 (4), p.449-465
1. Verfasser:	Braten, Stein
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Child Abuse Child abuse & neglect Child Behavior Child Rearing Child Welfare Children Crosscultural Analysis Enactment Family (Sociological Unit) Family Environment Family Relationship Freud (Anna) Helping Behavior Infants Learned resourcefulness Learning Nature Nurture Controversy Ontogeny Parent Child Relationship Participation Peer Relations Peer Relationship Preschool Children Prosocial Behavior Prosocial behaviour Psychological Distress Social Behavior Toddlers Violence
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Zusammenfassung:	Studies of children across cultures and rearing environments reveal that some toddlers offer help and comfort to children in need or distress, while other toddlers are indifferent or even elevate the child's distress. Elements of an explanatory account of prosociality are proposed in terms of an inborn companion space, enabling inclusion of others in felt immediacy and learning by reciprocal participation in the caretaking to which the infant is subjected. This implies a vicious circle of re-enactment towards other children by toddlers who have suffered abuse.
ISSN:	0907-5682 1461-7013
DOI:	10.1177/0907568296003004003