Sibling relationships involving developmentally disabled people.
Forty-six sisters of moderately to profoundly developmentally disabled individuals completed questionnaires measuring qualitative aspects of their sibling relationships. In comparison to relationships with their nondisabled siblings, these relationships were described as less competitive and less intimate as well as different in nurturance, admiration, and domination patterns. Relationship scores were predicted, either independently or interactively, by sibling dependency, sibship constellation variables, the ages of subjects and their siblings, and living arrangements. Implications of these results were discussed as they pertain to various conceptualizations of sibling relationships and to future research.
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School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 53201.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012801:Sibling Relations