The purpose of this study is to find some relationships among sibling status factors; the order of the births, the sex distribution of the brother/sister and the age gap between them, sibling relationship and conflict resolution strategies in children...
The purpose of this study is to find some relationships among sibling status factors; the order of the births, the sex distribution of the brother/sister and the age gap between them, sibling relationship and conflict resolution strategies in children's friendship.
The subjects of this study were 482 male and female children, made up of the 5th and 6th grade elementary schoolers with a single brother.
In this study, Sibling Relationship Questionnaire developed by Furman and Buhrmester(1985) were used to observe the sibling relation. A Scale on Conflict Resolution Strategies in Children's Friendship(Rhee, Koh, & OH) was used to measure children's conflict resolution strategies in children's friendship.
The data was analysed by using one-way ANOVA, and stepwise regression. The results of this study were as follows:
First, in the result of having seen the difference of children's conflict resolution strategies according to their birth order, which is difference in dominating and obliging strategies. It was shown that the first-born children and only child uses dominating strategies the most but only child uses less obliging stategies than the firts-born children.
Second, in the result of having seen the difference of the children's conflict resolution strategies according to compromising-integrating and obliging strategies, which is their birth order and the sex distribution. It was shown that female children having brother were more willing to used compromising-integrating strategies. But male children having sister and only child weren't used. Also female children having elder brother, they were more willing to used obliging strategies.
Third, in the results of having seen the difference in the conflict resolution strategies for children's friendship according to the age gap, it was shown that no difference.
Finally, Sibling relationship has a lot to do with the conflict resolution strategies in children's friendship. Most of all, kinship and friendship might be one of explanatory factors in compromising-integrating strategies, avoiding strategies and obliging strategies while confliction appeared to be the factor in the dominance strategies. More brotherhood or sisterhood is friendly and close, one deal with the conflictions among one's friends in terms of compromising-integrating avoiding and obliging strategies, and more conflicting one's brotherhood relationship one use dominance strategies mostly.