SDCA Journal of Psychology

Abstract

This research assessed the relationship between birth order and interpersonal dependency among college students at St. Dominic College of Asia. The researchers decided to conduct this research in hope to bring the possible relationship of birth order and interpersonal dependency of the students. Interpersonal dependency has been around since we formed relationships with someone. This study utilized a descriptive-comparative research design. One hundred fifty (150) college students of St. Dominic College of Asia were selected as respondents through non-probability sampling. The researchers combined the Interpersonal Dependency Inventory to measure the respondents' dependency level and a researcher-made question to determine their birth order among their siblings, then, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics was used to treat the data. The result shows the f computed value of 0.299702 is lower than the tabular value of 1.23366. The decision is to accept the null hypothesis which denotes that there is no significant relationship between the birth order of the respondents and their interpersonal independency.

Keywords: Birth order, interpersonal dependency, comparative.