Adult sibling relationship: A gender study of middle aged adults

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Sakshi and Anuradha Singh (Department of Psychology, Mahadevi Kanya Pathshala (PG) College, Dehradun, Uttarkhand, India)

The objective of this study was to compare the score of male and female on the various adult sibling relationship dimensions (contact, emotional closeness and conflict, confiding). Quota sampling technique was used to select 150 male and 150 female adults from the general population of Jammu city. Adult sibling relationship scale (Nandwana & Katoch) was used to study the variable. The findings revealed that the females acquired higher mean score as compared to males on adult sibling relationship. The t-value suggested significant difference at 0.01 level on three (contact, emotional closeness and conflict) of the four dimensions of adult sibling relationship. It could be concluded that the gender has a great role on adult sibling relationship. Result reveals that females are good in keeping contacts, are emotionally closed and confide things with little bit conflict that brings sorrow in their sibling relationship as compared to their counterparts.