Verbal communication between college students and their siblings /
The purpose of this study was to assess the fequency of various aspects of verbal communication between college students and their siblings. Specifically, the frequency of discussing sports, school, relationships, career, family, sex, recreation, and finances with siblings was assessed addition to t...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to assess the fequency of various aspects of verbal communication between college students and their siblings. Specifically, the frequency of discussing sports, school, relationships, career, family, sex, recreation, and finances with siblings was assessed addition to the frequency that college students used verbal communication to support, criticize, inform, argue, express emotion, provide feedback, ask for help, apologize, boast, and express hope to their siblings. A sample of 435 undergraduate students at Texas A&M University, ages 18-25, who had at least one living full biological sibling was surveyed. Participants responded anonymously to the Sibling Study Questionnaire, which was developed for the study. An interaction was found between respondent gender and sibling gender on many of the communication variables. Specifically, males talked to their brothers more frequently about sports and sex than did females, whereas females talked to their sisters more frequently about relationships, family, sex, career, school, and recreation than did males. In addition, females were more likely to support, inform, express emotion, give feedback, ask for help, apologize, and express hope to their siblings than were male respondents. In general, respondents were more likely to criticize and argue with their brothers their sisters. Respondents who were older than their siblings were more likely to talk to them about recreation and more likely to support, criticize, inform, and argue with their siblings. Respondents who were younger than their siblings were more likely to talk to them about career and finances and to ask their siblings for help. European-Americans reported talking to their siblings more about relationships and recreation than did non-European-Americans. In addition, College of Education majors were more likely than non-College of Education majors to talk their siblings about school, relationships, family, and recreation and support, inform, express emotion, feedback, ask for help, apologize, and express hope to their siblings. The GPA of respondents had a minimal relationship with the frequency of topics and focus of communication between siblings. Additional analyses were computed with variation on the original data set. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Counseling Psychology". |
| Physical Description: | xii, 143 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-119). |