Vol. 9, Issue 3 (2020)

Author(s):
Arti Kumari

Abstract:
The current study was considered to investigate sibling differences in adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship among Families of G.B.P.U.A. &T., pantnagar. The present study examine sibling differences in adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship from four different social classes (Class I, Class II, Class III, and Class IV) of G.B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Forty adolescents were at random selected as respondents from each social class of families formulating a total of 160 adolescent respondents for the analyzing sibling differences in adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship among families of G.B.P.U.A. &T., pantnagar. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) revealed significant effect of sibling differences in adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship among families of G.B.P.U.A. &T., pantnagar. The results of the study revealed that the respondents having significant difference among all ten domains of adolescents’ relationship with both mother and father across number of sibling from different social classes. The association of relationship with parent aspects in families from different social classes are represented which depicts significant difference in all the domains of parent-adolescent relationship in the families except in loving. One or no sibling or two or three and more siblings showed high significant difference in protecting, symbolic punishment, demanding, symbolic reward and object reward domains of relationship with mother and father among class I and class II as compared to class III and IV. Whereas, among number of siblings of class III and class IV have high level of significant difference in domain that is rejecting, object punishment, indifferent and neglecting.