ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2020
Physical Fitness and Somatic Characteristics of the Only Child.
Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Family structure and birth order in relation to preschoolers' social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes: a cross-sectional analysis of 19,987 children in western China.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Sibling Presence on Motor Competence and Physical Fitness: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Analysis of the association between physical health and BMI in single-child and multiple-child families: a study based on the SUREG model and the BMA approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations Between Relative Age, Siblings, and Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Relationship between having siblings and developmental status: A cross-sectional study in a cohort of 2-year-old Iranian children.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Association of parent-child discrepancies in educational aspirations with physical fitness, quality of life and school adaptation among adolescents: a multiple mediation model.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Comparative study on emotional behavior and parental job stress of only-child and non-only-child preschool children.World journal of clinical cases · 2024Article
- Associations between Agility, the Relative Age Effect, Siblings, and Digit Ratio (D2:D4) in Children and Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Level of physical activity among adolescents in Ernakulam District, Kerala: A cross-sectional study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024Article
- Is only-child status associated with a higher blood pressure in adolescence? An observational study.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Observational
- Learning to Cycle: Are Physical Activity and Birth Order Related to the Age of Learning How to Ride a Bicycle?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Siblings' Influence on the Motor Competence of Preschoolers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine if only child show differences on somatic growth and physical fitness compared to be a child with siblings. The participants included 542 children (boys:
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