Other scholarship supports that the "little emperor" phenomenon does exist. Jiao and colleagues compared children between the ages of four and ten from urban and suburban areas of Beijing using peer ratings of cooperativeness, leadership, and other desirable traits. When they analyzed a matched sample of only children and children with siblings from similar backgrounds, they reported constant patterns in which the only children were rated less positively.
Other scholarship supports that the "little emperor" phenomenon does exist Jiao and colleagues compared children between the ages of four and ten from urban and suburban areas of Beijing using peer ratings of cooperativeness leadership and other desirable traits When they analyzed a matched sample of only children and children with siblings from similar backgrounds they reported constant patterns in which the only children were rated less positively