Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2019

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME, FAMILY SIZE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

Pristina Rosalyn P, Divya Dovina T

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Family is regarded as the smallest essential unit of society and has an inevitable significance for human life. It is the first environment for an individual to satisfy his/her needs to achieve satisfaction from life, to carry out his/her functions and to grow up as a socially responsible person with the help of various resources parents provide them with. The present study aims to understand the influence that the income in a family could have on family relationships. It also intends to study the influence that family size could have on family relationships. The size of a family may play a key role in determining the extent to which the resources are diluted among the children. Parents may intend to give the best to all of their children with equal measure. However, it is quite possible for the children to have a perspective quite contradictory to that of their parents‘. Thus, data was collected separately from the parents and from the children. The scale – Brief Family Relationships Scale (Ching, Allen, Henry, 2011) was administered to the parents. For children, the scales – Brief Family Relationships Scale (Ching, Allen, Henry, 2011) and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988) were administered so also to understand how they perceive the social support they get, taking in mind the fact that many of the parents nowadays opt for a smaller family comprising of 2 children, or sometimes only one child. Data was collected from 134 children and 102 parents, their age groups being from 10–25 years and 30–60 years respectively. Pearson’s product moment correlation and SPSS 16 were used to analyze the obtained data. Results and implications are discussed

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME, FAMILY SIZE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS, Pristina Rosalyn P, Divya Dovina T INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2019

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