A Study of the Effects of Picture Book Reading on Young Children’s Sibling Jealousy

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10.2991/978-2-38476-460-0_7How to use a DOI?

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picture book reading; young children; sibling envy; emotional development; intellectual enlightenment

Abstract

The study focuses on the role of picture book reading in sibling envy in young children. With the implementation of the multiple-child policy, the relationship between siblings has become intricate and complicated, and the problem of sibling envy has gradually emerged, which negatively affects young children’s physical and mental health and family relationships. In this study, 60 children in the first class of Huiyuan Road Kindergarten in Jiading District, Shanghai, were selected as the research subjects, and “You are all my favourite” (emotion cultivation category) and “The Caterpillar” (knowledge enlightenment category) were selected as the experimental materials by using experimental research and interview methods. The results of the study showed that the emotion-cultivating picture books had a significant effect on reducing the frequency of jealousy, regulating emotional responses, improving behavioural performance and promoting cognitive development, e.g., the children in the class reading such picture books had less frequency of jealousy, less anger and less aggressive behaviour, and more correctly understood the love of their parents, however, the intervention effect of the knowledge-enlightening picture books was weaker.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiayi Luo
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/08/31
TI  - A Study of the Effects of Picture Book Reading on Young Children’s Sibling Jealousy
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 6th International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 46
EP  - 52
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-460-0_7
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-460-0_7
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