SIBLING RELATIONSHIP QUALITIES FOLLOWING THE CRISIS OF DIVORCE (LIFE EVENTS, RIVALRY).
Contributors: University of Miami.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Behavioral.; Psychology, Developmental.
Description: Drawing on the model of sibling relationship qualities set forth by Furman and Buhrmester (1985), the descriptive study's question was reformulated within Roger's Science of Unitary Human Beings to; Are there repatterning differences in the sibling relationship resonancy when adolescent siblings experience an environmental field change when contrasted to adolescent siblings who are not experiencing this environmental field change?.

The study sample consisted of 130 subjects, 62 males and 68 females, whose ages ranged from 12-15 years of age. These volunteer participant subjects were drawn from a group of private schools along the eastern coast of central Florida. Eighteen parents participated in the study to provide comparison results between the child's and parent's perceptions of sibling relationship variables. Private religiously affiliated schools were the setting for the study.

The design of the study compared adolescent sibling relationship qualities of children of divorced and non-divorced parents. Two instruments were used in the study. The LES-A was used to measure life events and the SRQ was used to measure the sibling relationship qualities of warmth, status, conflict and rivalry. From the results of the LES-A, two groups were formed. The first group included those who, within the last year, were experiencing parental separation or divorce. These 30 subjects were then matched with the remaining 100 subjects. Criteria for matching the groups were (1) their response to the LES-A scale as high, moderate or low, (2) their sibling position, (3) the sibling age spacing as less than or equal to 3 years or greater than 3 years, (4) sex.

Statistical analysis conducted included frequency distributions, correlations, multivariate analysis and discriminant analysis. The level of significant set was.05. While statistically significant results were not found, a number of differences between the groups were described. The two relationship scales which showed a difference between groups were warmth and conflict: An unexpected finding was that both scales showed repressed scores rather than an inverse response as anticipated.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: B, page: 5639.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, 1992.

School code: 0125.