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Gender, Family Structure and
Siblings Effects on a Person’s Emotional Reliance and their Assertion of
Autonomy |
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Amanda Borders University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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ABSTRACT This study researches the idea effects of a person's gender, family type and number of siblings on their dependency. 391 students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln completed a set of surveys that include the emotional reliance and assertion of autonomy sub scales of the interpersonal dependency inventory (IDI). A significant interaction was found between gender, family type and the number of siblings for a person's emotional reliance, but not their assertion of autonomy. As previous research showed, there was also a main effect of gender for both emotional reliance and autonomy. If
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