Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
4-17-2019
Abstract
This research project qualitatively re-examines African college students’ concepts of sibling relationships guided by a Family Systems Theory framework (Bowen, 1985). Specifically, the purpose of this research is to examine and contextualize the nature and relevance of African sibling relationships in emerging adulthood. Data collection and analysis has been done on participants, consisting of African college students at SUNY Geneseo, in focus groups and individual interviews to help us phenomenologically investigate the phenomena of interest. The analysis provided on this poster will, however, only consist of data and analysis from the focus groups. Thematic findings will be carefully explicated and future work on this research project will be discussed. The results revealed salient themes of sibling influences, sibling parental roles, comparing upbringings, and family values. Emergent findings led to the understanding that older African college students influence their younger siblings in both academic and personal ways of life that shift over time across adolescence. This has lead to shared ideas of success and strong sibling comparisons due to the desire to be similar to the siblings that have set personal standards of achievement.
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Recommended Citation
Bearss, Brittany; Wague, Oumou; Patil, Neha; Shawkat, Awab; Bukuru, Assia; Palumbo, Nicholas P.; and DeHart, Ganie B., "African Immigrant College Students Concepts of Sibling Relationships" (2019). Papers, Posters, and Recordings. 32.
https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/great-day-works/32