Only child ‘syndrome’: How growing up without siblings affects your child’s development

We found a study that children not growing with brothers and sisters might have a different brain structure from the structure of the brain.

Compared to my brothers and sisters, it is said that only children are selfish and spoiled.

However, a new study by Southwest University in Chongqing, China suggests that this may be more than just action.

Previous studies focused on differences in behavior and personality traits without brothers and brothers but this research aimed to explore whether the difference has a neural basis. To do

About 250 college students are studying, about half of them are children, researchers scan their brains while testing their personality, creativity and intelligence

By verifying the results of previous studies, the test results show that only children are better than brothers and sisters in terms of creativity, but consistently lower scores in "consent" personality traits It is.

Scans also show that the parts of the brain associated with these developments are indeed different in structure between the two.

The only child showing higher creativity actually shows higher gray matter in the parietal lobe - part of the brain related to mental flexibility and imagination

At the same time, the scanning of children who did not show superior features showed a decrease in gray matter in the medial prefrontal cortex. This is a part of the brain that is known to self-recognize others.

According to researchers, this suggests that, regardless of whether they grow with their brothers and sisters, various family environments may affect the child's brain structural development.

They also showed that in previous studies only children tended to show higher intelligence but the only concerns of parents and grandparents were "bad" personality characteristics such as dependence, selfishness, social incompetence and He pointed out that he might lead to what he calls.

Psychologists agree that kidding is likely to be guilty. Regardless of whether it is a choice of parents or not, the only child will be a playing partner, without confidence, brothers and sisters, confident, competitive and growing to be the best bio's friend. However, as families with only one child grew quietly and became the trend of new modern birthrate, more studies showed that only children are well tuned like other brothers and sisters. The only child syndrome: The stereotypes are depicting humans who are lonely, ruined, tyrannical, dysfunctional. The history of this word dates back to 1896. Psychologist Granville Stanley Hall wrote a research paper on the psychology of children without brothers and sisters, which endured the test of time and became one of my greatest myths.

Children's syndrome alone often refers to brothers that will not be spoiled, those who are selfish and can not cooperate with others. New research has been conducted in China, "one child policy" has been valid for 30 years. This shows that much of the only assumption about children is actually true. The researcher said: "Only children can gain too much attention and excessive praise from their parents and grandparents, and it has bad personality traits like dependence, egoism and social incompetence We can rehearse important opportunities in a more complex relationship in a safe environment. "

I am a child, it can be regarded as a creative catapult, or it may be the source of intriguing curiosity that provides me with an unidentified attention deficit disorder. When growing without brothers, you will discover the surroundings, find yourself and stir up your imagination for entertainment. Do not misunderstand me what I am saying; I have a lot of cousins ​​and friends. But I still spend a lot of time preparing, inventing and testing limited television and video games to access the Internet boundaries before the world. "Necessity is the mother of invention", the only child is the father of creativity.

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