When Toddlers Provide Care: Infants' Companion Space

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