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ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2014

Ripple effects of developmental disabilities and mental illness on nondisabled adult siblings.

Barbara Wolfe, Jieun Song, Jan S Greenberg, Marsha R Mailick

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Barbara WolfeInstitute for Research on Poverty, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Department of Economics, and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: bwolfe@wisc.edu.
Jieun SongWaisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705-2280, USA.
Jan S GreenbergSchool of Social Work and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1350 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Marsha R MailickWaisman Center and School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705-2280, USA.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

WISCONSIN CENTER ON MENTAL RETARDATION: CORE SUPPORTP30HD003352 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MESSING, ALBEE · 1985 to 2015
$25.2M
WORK, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEINGP01AG021079 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI PALLONI, ALBERTO B. · 2002 to 2011
$14.2M
Scientific and Technical CoreP2CHD047873 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Katherine J. Curtis · 2014 to 2026
$5.1M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG021079NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD047873NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD003352NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD03352
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developmental disabilities and severe mental illness are costly to the affected individual and frequently to their family as well. Little studied are their nondisabled siblings. Here we examine major life course outcomes (education, employment, and marriage) of these siblings in adulthood using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Our sample comprises 113 individuals with developmental disabilities and 337 of their nondisabled siblings; 97 individuals with mental illness and 235 of their nondisabled siblings; and 17,126 unaffected comparison group members. We find that siblings of individuals with mental illness have less education and less employment than the unaffected comparison group, whereas those who have a sibling with developmental disabilities had normative patterns of education and employment, but less marriage and more divorce. Robustness tests incorporating genetic data do not change the conclusions based on the nongenetic analyses.

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AdultDevelopmental DisabilitiesEducational StatusEmploymentFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMarital StatusMental DisordersSiblingsWisconsinDevelopmental disabilitiesEducationLife courseSevere mental illnessSiblingsU.S.A.

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PMID24607704
PMCPMC4079586
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