Those who have one or more siblings tend to be more used to having someone around and growing up with someone besides their parents next to them. However, we can assume that those who are born as an only-child spend more time alone than do those who have a sibling. Does having a sibling allow one to be more social and comfortable in the presence of others?
An experimental design would best suit my research question and to help test my hypothesis. A research method I would use to conduct my experiments would be naturalistic observation. In my experiment, I can observe a setting where many children spend their time in the presence of other children-like a playground. In this experiment, my independent variable would be children who have siblings compared to those who are only-child. My dependent variable would be the amount of socializing that occurs at the playground.
My hypothesis is that children with siblings at home will be seen playing with other kids more than children who are the only child at home.
Through this experiment, everyone can see the influence of having a sibling to a child. If my hypothesis is proven to be correct, we will see that it is important for children to have siblings in order to be active outside of the home.
It is somewhat difficult to perform this experiment because we can not really record our data in a specific way. But, we can just observe and see if the only child or the child with the sibling spends longer or any time time at all associating with the other children.
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