Older siblings as potential supervisors of younger siblings: sibling supervisors' recognition of injury‐risk behaviours and beliefs about supervisee risk taking and potential injury outcomes

Abstract

Older siblings showed good knowledge of hazards but failed to realize that younger children often engage in injury-risk behaviours. Efforts to improve the supervision practices of sibling supervisors need to include changing their perception of supervisees' injury vulnerability and potential injury severity, rather than targeting to increase knowledge of injury-risk behaviours per se.