Katarzyna Walęcka-Matyja RELATIONSHIPS WITH SIBLINGS AS A WAY OF COPING WITH STRESS IN THE EARLY ADULT HOOD AND THE LEVEL OF SELF-ESTEEM

Abstrakt

The aim of this study was to determine the psychological image of sibling
relationships in adulthood, as well as to answer the question of whether and
how sibling relationships in early adulthood are associated with the strategies for
coping with stress and the level of self-esteem.
The study included 62 persons in early adulthood (average age 30.2 years).
The following tools were used: the Adult Sibling Relationship Questionnaire (ASRQ)
by Stocker, Lanthier and Furman (1995) in the adaptation of Walęcka-Matyja (2014),
the Multidimensional Coping Inventory to Assess the Ways in Which People Respond to
Stress (COPE) by Carver, Scheier and Weintraub in the adaptation of Juczyński
and Ogińska-Bulik (2009) and the Self-Esteem Scale (SES) by Rosenberg (1965) in the
adaptation of Łaguna, Lachowicz-Tabaczek, Dzwonkowska (2007).
The results of the study demonstrated the existence of correlations (especially numerous
in the group of sisters), diverse in the direction and strength, between the
adult sibling relationship dimensions and the strategies of coping with stress. The
hypothesis that there is a positive correlation between the level of self-esteem and
similarity and closeness in the group of sisters was proved to be true. A negative
correlation between the level of self-esteem and a relationship characterized by
domination was noted in the group of brothers.