The Relationship Between Sibling Structure and Stress Coping Behaviors, Social Adjustments of Children

초록

The purpose of this study was to explore positive coping behaviors with stresses and social adjustments of children as they relate to children's grades, gender, and their sibling structure. The subjects for this study were 657 children who were selected from the fourth, sixth, and eigth graders of seven schools in Inchon area. The major findings were as follows : 1. Girls coped better with stresses in friendship matters than boys did. Girls also had more responsiveness and reality in their social adjustments than boys did. 2. The older, the better coped with stresses, while the older, the less adjusted socially. 3. Children who had elder sibling coped better with stresses in family relationship and school matters than children who had no elder sibling. 4. Boys who had elder sister better coped with stresses, while girls who had no elder sister less coped with stresses. 5. Children who had younger siblings were adjusted better to family relationshiop than those who had no younger sibling.