International Journal of Education and Psychological Research

(Print and Online Peer Reviewed Journal)


Print - ISSN: 2349 - 0853
e - ISSN: 2279 - 0179

VOLUME 10 - ISSUE 1

(March 2021)

Effect of Sex Matching of Siblings on Emotional Development


Authors: Dr. Simi Shrivastava

Pages: 106-107

Abstract:

A special part of the family is the siblings. The brothers and sisters influence each other in their relationship providing physical and emotional contact at critical stages throughout their lives. The brothers and sisters are the vital components in the family system. The study intends to find the effect of sex-matching of siblings on emotional development. It has been hypothesized that four sub-groups based on sex-matching i.e., male sibling subject with another male (M-M), male sibling subject with another female (M-F), female sibling subject with another male (F-M), and female sibling subject with another female (F-F) would differ in regard to their emotional development. A final sample of 240 subjects were randomly selected equally (N=60) from four sex-matching groups of siblings i.e., M-M, M-F, F-M, and F-F. Emotional Stability Scale (Gupta and Singh, 1985) was used to ascertain the emotional development level of the subjects. Results indicated that F-M group showed the highest level of emotional development (M=7.778) while the F-F group showed the lowest level of emotional development (M=7.320). The M-M group (M=7.646) stood second and M-F group (M=7.327) stood third in the regard. The obtained F- ratio for these differences is found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. The results also indicated that males had shown greater emotional development in the condition of same sex-matching where as females had shown more emotional development in the condition of opposite sex-matching.