Siblings’ Relationship and Identification Process in school going Children

Abstract

Siblings are a person’s first interaction of their age and until a child starts going to school the only too in most of the cases. The relationship a child has with his or her sibling is an The current study is that siblings share is dependent on a lot of factors. For the present study it is hypothesized that warmth in siblings relationship will be influenced by the gender of the participant and the gender of the sibling. It is also hypothesized that warmth in and de-identification. The data was collected from school level children (N=100), aged 12-17 years of age (M=14.65, SD =1.69). The data was collected as a group after seeking consent from the school authorities. It was a self-report inventory consisting of demographic form, Sibling Influence Scale (Whiteman et al, 2010) and Quality of Sibling Relationship, warmth subscale (Furman & Buhrmester, 1985); it was then entered SPSS version 21. A two way ANOVA showed a significant interaction between the gender of the participant and gender of the chosen sibling, F (1, 96) = 4.32, p=.04. Female reported greater warmth towards brothers while males reported more warmth towards sisters. Multiple regression analysis was carried out F (2, 97) = 853.42, p<0.001. R2= .945, adj R2=0.944 showing that sibling modeling and de-identification significantly predicted the warmth in the relationship. The findings of this study suggests that both gender composition and identification process effects the warmth in sibling relationship.