• Muskan Gupta
• Arupuda Mary Rajanc

The sphere of influence in an individual’s life is his family, the number of people in the family, the environment that the individual grows up in affects their behavioral patterns. The children raised without siblings are tend to be more authoritative and also display lower levels of agreeableness. Here arises the need to do a study that focuses on the levels of dominance in only child in a romantic relationship and the tolerance for disagreement in the only child. Dominance was measured using the 32-item Dominance Scale (for relationship research) (Hamby, 1996). The Dominance Scale (for relationship research) measures 3 facets of a dominant partner: Authority - about being the boss, Restrictiveness - about restricting one’s partner, Disparagement - about undervaluing one’s partner. Tolerance for disagreement was measured using the 15-item Tolerance for Disagreement Scale (TFD) (Teven, Richmond & McCroskey, 1998), the Scale was used to measure the degree to which an individual can tolerate other people disagreeing with what the individual believes to be true. The study was conducted in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. The sample consisted of 50 individuals without siblings who were in a relationship/ engaged/ married and 50 individuals with siblings who were in a relationship/engaged/married. It is a quantitative study using the purposive sampling and snowball sampling methods. The results show a significant difference among Individuals without siblings and individuals with siblings in terms of dimensions of Dominance in a relationship which are Authority (t=6.026), Restrictiveness (t=2.874), Disparagement (t=2.183), and Tolerance for disagreement (t= 3.929).

Dominance of only child in a relationship, tolerance, disagreement.

"A STUSY ON LEVELS OF DOMINANCE IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP AND TOLERANCE FOR DISAGREEMENT IN ONLY CHILD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.133-145, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06021.pdf

"A STUSY ON LEVELS OF DOMINANCE IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP AND TOLERANCE FOR DISAGREEMENT IN ONLY CHILD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp133-145, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06021.pdf