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Indications of problem behavior among junior high school students in relation to the effects of the order of siblings and psychological support
2008 Volume 46 Issue 1 Pages 45-56
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2008 Volume 46 Issue 1 Pages 45-56
This paper examined the effects on the indications of problem behavior among junior high school students and psychological support in relation to the order of siblings. It involved 989 junior high school students from all grades and the subjects completed a self-report questionnaire. From 794 valid responses, 609 families with an eldest child and a youngest child were considered for this evaluation. The following results were derived.
1. Compared to the eldest child, the youngest child had a higher tendency to show signs of misconduct and not attending school.
2. Compared to the youngest child, the eldest child had a higher tendency to depend on the mother or the father for psychological support.
3. The paper showed that the indications of problem behavior are correlated with psychological support and the order of siblings. The higher the dependency on psychological support the eldest child had, the more he/she could avoid problem behavior. On the other hand, the youngest child differed from the eldest child. The higher the dependency on psychological support from the opposite gender or friends, the greater the tendency the youngest child would show signs of misconduct.
The paper proposed that problem behavior was related to the order of siblings and the degrees of psychological support. Though the siblings were being raised by the same parents, the order of the siblings showed the differences in how each sibling viewed his/her relation with the parents. This can be seen to have effects on the indications of problem behavior.
