Volume : 8, Issue : 4, APR 2022

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ADJUSTMENT LEVEL ON SINGLE CHILD AND CHILD WITH SIBLINGS

SHREYA TOMAR, DR. MANORANJAN TRIPATHY

Abstract

Adjustment, is behavioural process by which problem humans and other animals maintain an equilibrium among their various needs or between their needs and the obstacles of their environments. A sibling is a gender neutral word for a relative that shares at least one parent with the subject. An only child is a person with no siblings, by birth or adoption. To assess the adjustment of the single child and siblings. The sample consist of 60 participants out of which 30 are single child and 30 siblings aged 14-18 years were selected by the simple random sampling method and ex-post facto research design is used. For testing this research null hypothesis was used. For inclusive method researcher have included single child and two siblings of age group 14-18 years, both boys and girls were included and for exclusive method researcher excluded 18+ peoples and also siblings more than two. Data collected by using adjustment scale constructed by A.K.P. Sinha and R.P. Singh and t-test is used for statistical analysis. Result show that there is no significant difference between significant difference between single child and siblings on the level of adjustment and all in the three dimensions i.e., emotional, social and educational.

Keywords

SINGLE CHILD, SIBLINGS & ADJUSTMENT.

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