청소년의 형제관계와 정서·행동문제의 관련성 연구

Abstract

There are a number of discussions to explain the causes of emotional and behavioral problems of adolescents. This study aims at identifying the relationships between sibling relations and emotional/behavioral problems in adolescents. It targets 778 boy and girl students whose grades are 1, 2 and 3 from 8 middle schools in Gwangju. To measure the sibling relations, it uses Sibling Relationship Questionnaire produced by Furman and Buhrmester (1985) and modified by Park Yeong-Ae(1995). To assess the emotional and behavioral problems, it uses Korean Youth Self-Report(K-YSR; Oh, Lee, Hong, & Hah, 1998) developed by Achenbach(1991b), and standardized by Oh, Lee, Hong, & Hah. This study analyses the data collected with a use of SPSS 10.1k and the average and standard deviations are obtained to identify the sibling relations. To identify the degree of emotional and behavioral problems, it obtains the means of t-test scores, standard deviation, order and ratio of clinical range in each area, and frequency and ratio in emotional and behavioral problems. And to identify the correlations between sibling relations and emotional and behavioral problems, it conducts a correlation analysis and to identify the difference in sibling relations, it conducts a t-test. The results of the study are presented as follows: First, low average score is found in warmth/intimacy. In the warmth/intimacy area, the siblings do not have warm and intimate positive relations. In conflict area, they show higher average, which indicates negative sibling relations due to conflicts. Second, the results of the study on emotional and behavioral problems show that 151 of the 778 subjects, 19.4%, are clinical range in the total problematic behavior scale. The thing that needs specific attention is that thought problems following aggressive behavior have the higher clinical degree. Third, the results of the study on the correlations on siblings relations and emotional and behavioral problems show that there is a high correlation between sibling conflict, social problems, attention problems, delinquent behavior, and aggressive behavior and the more sibling conflict, the more aggressive behavior. Fourth, the significant results of differences according to emotional and behavioral problems show that the subjects in the clinical group who are withdrawn do not have intimate relations in comparison with those in the normal group, and siblings with thought problems have high warmth/intimacy than those without problems. The more conflicts between siblings, the more total behavior problems, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, depression/anxiety, attention, and aggressive behaviors of the emotional and behavioral problems. And the subjects in the clinical group who have internal and physical problems do not show care and interests each other, and in respect to riverly including the cognition of preference, they show depressed and anxious behaviors when parents show more affection and attention to other members. Through the results above, this study finds that there is a significant relation between siblings relations and emotional and behavioral problems of adolescents, and difference according to sub-factors and suggests that negative sibling relations may bring emotional and behavioral problems that affect society and others seriously.