The topic of this thesis is the sibling constellation theory. This theory says that the order of birth can affect many areas of life. The aim of this thesis is to verify this theory. The theoretical part of the thesis defines the term sibling constellation and briefly describes the history of research connected with this theory along with information about differences between certain author´s interpretations. The thesis also deals with the upbringing stereotypes that cause differences between individuals born in a certain order and with the description of their typical personality traits. The practical part of the thesis concentrates on verifying of sibling constellation theory through a questionnaire. The questionnaire is based on facts about each sibling position that were learned from literature and deals with the relationship between respondent´s parents and siblings in order to reveal possible rivalry and jealousy in their family environment.

The work focuses on the upbringing of multiple families and deeper into the sibling issue. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with general education and further explains related concepts such as psychosocial development, socialization and primary socialization. The core chapters of the thesis deal with the family as the most important educating factor and emphasize the importance of siblings for the psychosocial development of a pre-school child. The practical part of the thesis seeks answers to research questions contained in three objectives, using research methods are questionnaire and case study. 1. Find out, how parents can handle more children at a younger age. 2. Explore, what changes have occurred in families with the birth of other children. 3. Orient in changing the role of a child, based on its position in the order of birth. The target group is family with more children and at least one pre-school child. The answers that have been identified, prove that the education of more children at once is difficult for parents, but the experience they have experienced helps them to overcome them. Parents admit, that the relations of existing family members have changed with the arrival of other children. In most cases the changes were positive. For a child of pre-school age, each sibling...

The diploma thesis focuses on the research of sibling constellations and other specifics in relation of healthy siblings and physically disadvantaged, particularly for persons with multiple sclerosis, which at the time of the disease for at least some time have not lived in the common household. The research using interviews with respondents is subsequently analyzed from two points of view, both in terms of healthy individuals to disadvantaged and disadvantaged in terms of the healthy. The goal is to specify different views of the both siblings if they are different, which is expected and other peculiarities of their relationship. Then the analysis follows the trends that are present in the relationship of these people. Research will precede acquaintance with issues of multiple sclerosis, especially its potential impact on psychosocial relations and the issue of the relationship between the average healthy adult siblings. The conclusions confirmed details on the specific consistent with the literature, but pronounced tendency in these relationships were not observed, the disease does not significantly affect relationships, which we believe is influenced mainly by the current state of the respondents, who are all stable and mostly take place everyday activities. KEYWORDS multiple sclerosis,...

THESIS TITLE Upbringing in a family of a child with a serious illness: the view of the parent and sibling ABSTRACT The diploma thesis deals with the topic of upbringing in a family of a child who has suffered from cancer as seen by their parents and siblings. The work is both theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part deals with the issue of upbringing in a family of a child with serious disease, sibling relationships and characteristics of cancer, especially leukemia. It also describes the role of family members, coping strategies and stress response. In this part of the thesis we also mention current research, organizations and projects, which focus on helping these families, especially to the siblings in these families. The aim of the empirical part is to find out and describe whether, from the parents' and healthy siblings' point of view, the parents have changed their parenting to children after a serious illness of a child started. The second goal is to find out how cancer affected siblings and their family relationships. The research investigation is of a qualitative nature. The data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews, which were analyzed using grounded theory procedures. The interviews were conducted with 5 families. In each case we spoke to a parent and a healthy...

When analyzing the development of children and adolescents, the most attention is usually paid to parents. Other older members of a family, however, have an important role, too. The crucial, yet often neglected person (at least in Czech literature), impacting the development of an individual, is his or her older sibling. The subject of the theoretical part of this thesis is to clarify the specifics of a sibling relationship as well as to describe the role and the sphere of influence of the older sibling considering all the factors that come into the relationship between two siblings. The empirical part consists of the description of the research project and the results of the research, whose aim is to discover the specifics of a sibling relationship with a particular focus on the upbringing styles of the older sibling; to find differences between the upbringing methods of parents and the upbringing methods of older siblings; and to find out to what extent the gender and the age difference between siblings determines their mutual relationship. Keywords: siblings, sibling relationships, the role of a sibling, upbringing, methods of upbringing

What influence was health disadvantage on constellation of siblings Author: Bc. Petra Slavíčková ABSTRACT The diploma thesis is focused on the topic of sibling constellation and how these can be influenced by health disabilities, specifically according to the birth order of the disabled child. This is a qualitative research. The data collection is made using interviews with young healthy adult siblings of disabled children. Categorical systems and data comparison sorted per younger and older siblings of disabled children are used for the analysis of collected data. The aim of this thesis is to broaden the issue of siblings of disabled children by a new point of view and find out which conformities and differences are between sibling constellations of younger and older siblings of disabled children. The outcomes of the research revealed numerous differences between younger and older siblings of children with disabilities in the fields of relationships, opinions and attitudes. It was found out generally, that the fact of sibling disability is perceived more by their younger siblings and this fact has a greater influence on their regular life. KEY WORDS family, siblings, sibling constellations, order of birth, health disabilities

This thesis is focused on the current concept of coping with stressful situations and the concept of posttraumatic growth of healthy siblings of disabled children. The first part of this thesis deals with stressful situations throughout the life of healthy sibling. The work describes the ways of coping with difficult life situations as well as coping strategies oriented to the future (proactive coping). It also focuses on the positive effects of this experience within the concept of posttraumatic growth. The empirical part presents the data obtained from nine respondents. There were used these methods: interview, narrative inspired by life-story, questionnaire PTGI-CZ and PCI questionnaire. The data were elaborated by means of qualitative and quantitative methods. The aim of the thesis was to identify the coping strategies used by siblings and identify potential posttraumatic growth. The most considerable development was reflected in the areas of "appreciation of life" and "personal growth". The most helpful coping strategies were considered to be positive thinking and positive reappraisal of a situation. We believe that these research findings might be helpful in counselling for siblings or in the area of psychotherapy.

TITTLE: Healthful brothers and sisters of mental disable children - parent's eyes SUMMARY: The text deals with the specifications of the relationship parent - sibling of a child with mental disabilities. It endeavours after answering the question what parental expectations and demands are placed on siblings in such family situation and how do these demands differ from the approach to a child with mental disabilities. Keywords: Family relationships, Sibling relationships, Mental disability, Education and educational attitudes

Thesis named How can be sibling constellations by health disability affected, researchs effect of health disability to sibling constellations. Influence of health disability is examined in the area of career orientation, spending freetime and position of intact sibling in sibling constellation. Data gained from semistructured interviews are sorted by contained informations and contexts to these three categories. The objective of thesis is to find out whether sibling constellations are ind the fixed areas affected by health disability. The data and codes are obtained by summary in interviews according to required categories. These data are compared with theoretical basis and then they are formed to answers to research questions. The conclusions of research established that in investigated areas sibling constellations are influenced. The influence comes from the individual dispositions of each of the respondent. At the end of the thesis based on the survey results there are proposed additional procedures for the processing of reladed research. The idea of the thesis is to express and give support for persons similar life situations. KEYWORDS health disability, sibling constellation, parents and children, career orientation, freetime

Ontogeny of a human being is influenced by several innate and environmental factors. One of the key environmental factors is family, its structure, and the dynamics of family relationships. These can depend, among other things, on the birth order. Relatively a lot of research has been conducted to study the effect of birth order on humans, but the area of human sexuality is often neglected. Research in this area has so far yielded relatively inconsistent results and needs to be expanded further with new knowledge. That is the main goal of this diploma thesis. In our cross-sectional study, 4495 subjects from two-child families were analyzed. We performed a partial correlation analysis of birth order and selected variables related to human sexuality, considering the sex of siblings. Particular attention was paid to the first sexual experience, the number of sexual partners, sociosexual orientation (SOI-R), and dominant-submissive sexual preferences. We found that the order of birth is related to several of these variables (age of first sexual experience, number of sexual partners, sexual preferences), but the key role is played by the combination of the individual's gender and the sex of his sibling. These results should be followed up by more detailed research within specific families to verify the...