Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 9 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 391-396
A Narrative Review on Sibling Rivalry- Known and Unknown Facts with Parent Involvement
Ms. Nithyapriya. R1, Mrs. Geetha.C2, Dr. Renuka K.3
1PG Student, Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College, Sri Balaji Vidhyapeeth, Puducherry.
2Professor, Department of Child Health Nursing, Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College, SBV, Puducherry.
3Principal, Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College, SBV, Puducherry.
Corresponding Author: Mrs.Geetha.C
ABSTRACT
Parents with more than one child had experience of Sibling Rivalry by themselves. The prevalence of parent’s knowledge on sibling rivalry in the general population, the literature was reviewed to show the knowledge on sibling rivalry among parents. A literature search was conducted with the following search terms, key-words and pharses-‘sibling rivalry’, ‘prevalence of sibling rivalry, emotional & behavioural problems’, ‘mothers knowledge, practice & attitude’, ‘Parental Empowerment Programme (PEP)’.The search was performed in the following database-goggle scholar and pub med. Considerable debate exists regard the prevalence of sibling rivalry in children there parental awareness to handling their children and in different aspects of sibling rivalry and its symptoms. From this review we infer, that there are various factors which influence the increased prevalence of sibling rivalry of emotional problems among children. Research literature supports the necessity for early identification of sibling rivalry in children by parents with adequate knowledge to manage the rivalry. It is a paramount to importance of guidelines in specific to the Indian parents with more than one child need to develop for a screening knowledge level of parents, monitoring to identify an emotional disturbance of children in general. However gaps remain in relevant aspects, encouraging further studies in specific groups of child parents to evaluate the impact of variable on the risk of developing sibling rivalry. The researcher showed interested to take those studies.
Key words: Sibling Rivalry, Parental Empowerment Programme (PEP), knowledge, attitude, practice, emotional and behavioural problem