The Examination of the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Expectant Mothers Towards Sibling Jealousy and the Jealousy Behaviors in Their Children

Abstract

This research is a quantitative study carried out to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices of expectant mothers towards sibling jealousy and the jealousy behaviors observed in their children using a relational search model. The study group consisted of 390 hospitalized mothers in the Gynecology Clinic of a University Hospital between August 2015 and August 2016. The data were collected using surveys developed by the researchers after the required permissions were obtained according to the ethical guidelines. The basic data such as the participants' knowledge about sibling jealousy, the methods they used to avoid it and their demographic information were presented with frequency and percentage tables. In order to determine the relationship between the mean scores of current jealousy behaviors of the children and those after learning that they would have a new sibling, the t test, one of the parametric tests, was applied because of the normal distribution of the data obtained after the assumptions of normality were examined. As a result of the statistical procedures, almost all of the mothers (94.6%) said to have informed the big sibling about their pregnancy, most of the participants (58.5%) had information to avoid jealousy among the siblings, more than half of them (52.3%) did not get any information about childrearing before, and those who did mostly got it from television/ the internet. In our study, it was observed that sibling jealousy is more common in siblings with a higher average age and in girls. Besides, it is more common among the children whose mothers aged 35 years and under and high school graduates and the sibling jealousy behaviors after the baby came home were found to be significantly lower than those after learning that they would have a new sibling.

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“…There were no significant main effects for the sex difference in sibling jealousy, which is consistent with previous studies (5,25,27). The sibling jealousy of male second-born children was significantly higher than that of females, which was inconsistent with the results of previous studies (22)(23)(24). A possible reason was that, in the socio-cultural context of China, older brothers or sisters should give way to younger ones, so the sex difference in the jealousy of the first-born children was not significant, while the male second children had a stronger attachment to their mothers, so their jealousy was higher than that of the females.…”

“…A revised Chinese version of the Children Sibling Jealousy Questionnaire developed by Kahriman and Kanak (23) and Chen and Yang (49), was used in this study. It consists of 16 items.…”

“…Researchers have found that girls' siblings are more jealous than boys' (22)(23)(24), and the age of the first child is negatively correlated with jealousy (25). As far as siblings are concerned, different gender combinations and age differences provide a unique family background for children's social adaptation process in China (5) and are also an important factor for siblings to compete for the limited resources of their parents (26).…”

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“…Penyebab sibling rivalry pada anak merasa mulai kehilangan kasih sayang orang tua dan merasa bahwa saudara kandung adalah saingan dalam mendapatkan perhatian dan kasih sayang dari orang tuanya (Yaremych and Volling, 2018). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Kahriman, Iknur, Kanak (2018) bahwa hasil belajar pengalaman prasekolah saudara kandung di Turki sebanyak 52,3%. Penelitian ini didukung oleh Anggraeni et al, (2015) bahwa hasil dari penelitian prasekolah Indonesia di mana pengalaman sibling rivalry berada pada tingkat tertinggi pada tingkat sedang 66%, tinggi 19,1%, rendah 14,9%.…”

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“…menyebabkan penurunan motivasi belajar di segala bidang, sehingga berdampak pada kegagalan perkembangan (Kahriman, Iknur, Kanak, 2018).…”