The present study was conducted in 2015-16. The population of the study comprised of 90 children from urban
and rural areas of selected districts of Northern Karnataka and special schools for mentally retarded located in Hubblli-
Dharwad city. Sibling relationship Questionnaire (SRQ) was used to assess the typical sibling’s perceptions of the relationship
and behaviors towards their sibling with parental factor. Socio –Economic Status Scale (Aggarwal et al., 2005) was employed
to assess the socio economic level of family. Results revealed that education and occupation of the father and mother
showed significant association with sibling relationship of children in both rural and urban area. Higher the education and
occupation of parent’s children showed higher level of sibling relationship in both rural and urban area. Parent’s education
and parent’s occupation had major influence on sibling relationship of children. Majority of children who had higher
educated and graduate/post graduate fathers were in moderate level of sibling relationship. Children having fathers working
in government/private sector was higher in sibling relation as compared to children with father working in agriculture/small
business and self employment which calls for educational programmes for parents to promote healthy sibling relationship
among children.