ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Parentification, distress, and relationship with parents as factors shaping the relationship between adult siblings and their brother/sister with disabilities.
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- A qualitative meta-analysis on the lived experience of siblings of persons with mental illness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Siblings of Persons with Disabilities: A Systematic Integrative Review of the Empirical Literature.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Experiences of siblings of children with chronic pediatric conditions: a qualitative systematic review.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
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- Pediatric advanced chronic kidney disease as a family challenge: coping and communication in daily life.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- The Reaction to Diagnosis Questionnaire-Sibling Version: A Preliminary Study on the Psychometric Properties.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- The Quality of the Parent-Child Relationship in the Context of Autism: The Role of Parental Resolution of the Child's Diagnosis, Parenting Stress, and Caregiving Burden.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- When a child lives with atopic dermatitis: an integrative literature review on parental experience.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
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- Editorial: Siblinghood through any disability: the state of the art and future directions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Brief report: caregivers' well-being in families with neurodevelopmental disorders members during COVID-19: implications for family therapy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
According to parentification theory, when the siblings of a brother/sister with disabilities assume parent-like duties, this role reversal is known as sibling-focused parentification. It has a significant impact on these siblings' distress and the quality of their family relationships; 605 Italian adult siblings (19-26 years) of people with disabilities completed the online survey. Measures of siblings' parentification, distress, quality of family relationships, social support, and perceived benefits of parentification were used. The hypothesized model aims to test, on the target sample, the distress and the quality of the relationship with parents as mediators on the interplay between the siblings' parentification and their sibling relationship. Additionally, social support and perceived benefits of parentification as protective factors were considered. Results showed that the distress and the low quality of the relationship with parents negatively affected the interplay between the siblings' parentification and the relationship with their own brother/sister with disabilities. Social support and the perceived benefits of parentification decreased the siblings' distress levels; the perceived benefits of parentification served as a protective factor for the quality of the relationship with parents. Current findings extend the knowledge regarding the risk and protective factors of the siblings' mental health when disability occurs in the family. Additionally, they inform family-based intervention programs, which should involve the whole family system for reducing distress and improving the wellbeing of siblings without disabilities.
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