Familism, Sibling Relationship and Psychological Wellbeing in Young Adults

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted to ascertain the mediating role of sibling relationship on familism and psychological wellbeing in young adults. The sample consisted of 120participants of the age range of 20 to 25 years. Familism Scale (Sabogal etal., 1987), Sibling relationship Inventory (SRI: Stocker & McHale, 1992), and Flourishing Scale (Choi et al., 2009) were used to study variables.After computing descriptive statistics of the data and reliability analysis for each scale, Pearson Product Moment correlation was used to assess the relationships while hypothesized mediation model was assessed through hierarchical regression. The results indicated a positive relationship amongst familism, sibling relationship and psychological wellbeing. It was also found that sibling relationship mediated between familism and psychological wellbeing.