ArticleJournal of intellectual disability research : JIDR2023
Behavioural adjustment of children with intellectual disability and their sibling is associated with their sibling relationship quality.
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- Exploring the characteristics of the sibling relationship in vision impairment in developmental age: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Psychosocial adaptation of siblings of autistic individuals: current evidence, controversies, and future directions.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- The impact of the reaction to diagnosis on sibling relationship: a study on parents and adult siblings of people with disabilities.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Construct validity of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale measuring adult sibling relationship quality where one sibling has intellectual or developmental disabilities.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2025Article
- Brief report: caregivers' well-being in families with neurodevelopmental disorders members during COVID-19: implications for family therapy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Behavioural adjustment of children with intellectual disability and their sibling is associated with their sibling relationship quality.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundUnderstanding sibling relationship quality is important, as it is associated with mental health outcomes in both childhood and adulthood. Arguably, these relationships are even more important for individuals with intellectual disability, as siblings can be important sources of care, support, advocacy and friendship for one another. The intellectual disability field, however, has a tendency to assume that the relationship lacks reciprocity, and that it is the sibling with intellectual disability who affects the sibling, and that this effect is somehow 'negative'.
methodsWe examined whether the behaviour problems and prosocial behaviour of 500 child sibling pairs, where one child has an intellectual disability, were associated with their sibling relationship quality. Measures included the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires and the Sibling Relationship Questionnaire. Family poverty, the gender of both children, birth order and whether the child with intellectual disability had autism or Down syndrome were also included in the analyses.
resultsConfirmatory factor analysis indicated an adequate model fit for the latent variables measuring sibling relationships. The final structural model found that the prosocial behaviour and internalising problems of the children with intellectual disability, their typically developing siblings' prosocial behaviours and sibling birth order were associated with intimacy-companionship in the sibling relationship. The internalising, externalising and prosocial behaviours of the children with intellectual disability, their siblings' externalising behaviours and sibling birth order were associated with antagonism-quarrelling in the sibling relationship.
conclusionsWe found that the behaviours of both the child with intellectual disability and their sibling were associated with both 'positive' and 'negative' dimensions of their sibling relationship. This indicates a bidirectional and reciprocal effect.
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