Investigation and Comparison of Social Development among Single-Child and Multi-Child Families in Isfahan City

Present research has been done with the aim of investigating and comparing socialdevelopment among students of only-child and multi-child families of guidance level in Isfahancity. This descriptive research was a causal-comparative one. Population of this research includedall students of guidance level in Isfahan city during academic year 2012-2013. Multi-stage randomsampling method was used in this research. First, two school districts of 3 and 4 were chosen outof educational regions randomly. Following that, 8 schools were chosen randomly from the list ofnon-benefit and state schools of these two school districts. Research sample included 90 studentsfor each group chosen randomly from these schools. Sample members responded Vaytrzmn socialdevelopment measure (1976). Research data were analyzed by SPSS software 16 using two-wayvariance analysis method. Results showed that there is no significant difference between twogroups of one-child and several-child families’ students considering social development. Resultsalso showed no significant difference concerning social development between two genders.

کلیدواژه ها:

Social Development ، Only-Child ، Several-Child