Sibling Relationship as a Predictor of Life Satisfaction and Resilience among College Going Students

Abstract

The aim to conduct this research is to know the impact of sibling relationship on life satisfaction and resilience among college going students and whether there is any gender difference in this case or not. The result analysed total of 100 (n=100) number of participants (50 females and 50 males), having one or more sibling/s, belonging to age group (18-25) years. For data collection, tools used were adult sibling relationship questionnaire-VSF (2014), Satisfaction with Life Scale-SWLS (1985) and Nicholson Mcbride Resilience Questionnaire-NMRQ. The quantitative analysis was done using t test and Pearson’s product-moment correlation. The research postulated that sibling relationship is positively correlated with life satisfaction and resilience. The better and stronger the sibling relationship, more will be the life satisfaction and resilience in an individual and there is no significant gender difference among life satisfaction and resilience but there is a slight gender difference among sibling relationship. Also, sibling relationship acts as a predictor of life satisfaction and resilience among college going students.