NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY AND ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING ON YOUTHS

Abstract

The study was on the “number of children in the family and its psychological wellbeing on youths”. The study had 74 undergraduates with age range 18-33 years, SD of 3.13672, correlational design, cluster sampling, and Person Product Moment Correlation statistics. Findings showed there was negative non-significant correlation between number of children and psychological wellbeing, so that as the number of children increases, the psychological wellbeing reduces; Number of children had negative significant relationship with “personal growth” attributes of psychological wellbeing, in which among all the attributes of psychological wellbeing, “personal growth” was most adversely affected by the number of children; and Number of children had positive non-significant relationship with “self-acceptance” attribute of psychological wellbeing, whereby some individuals still perceive themselves very positively notwithstanding the impacts of number of children in their family. Recommendation was for families to have number of children they can conveniently take care of.