The goal of the study was to understand the nature of the relationship among self
construal, family functioning and sibling number in terms of gender. Five hundred
twenthy-nine high school students participated in the study. Participants were
selected from seven general public high schools in Ankara. Data was gathered via
Personal Information Questionnaire, Autonomous-Related Self in the Family Scale
(Kagitç / ibagi, 2007a) and Family Assessment Device (Epstein, Balwin & / Bishop
1983). Results of the study indicated that, for both genders, relational selfconstruals
had significant correlations with healthy family functioning. It was also
evidenced that autonomous self-construal scores of males were significantly higher
than females and related self construal scores of females were significantly higher
than males. Furthermore the family functioning dimensions that families tend to be
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healthy or unhealthy were displayed. All findings were dicussed in line with the
relevant literature.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614885/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 October 2012 |
| Creators | Mesutoglu, Canan |
| Contributors | Demir, Ayhan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | Access forbidden for 1 year |
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