Adult Female and Male Siblings of Persons with Disabilities: Findings from a National Survey

In this study, the authors used a national, Web-based survey to examine female and male siblings of individuals with disabilities. More than 1,160 adult siblings completed a 163-question survey about themselves, their siblings, and their sibling relationships. Most respondents reported fairly close...

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Published in:Intellectual and developmental disabilities 2010-02, Vol.48 (1), p.52-62
Main Authors: Hodapp, Robert M, Urbano, Richard C, Burke, Meghan M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Age
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Caregivers - psychology
Cerebral Palsy
Computers
Cost of Illness
Developmental disabilities
Developmental Disabilities - psychology
Disabilities
Divorce
Down Syndrome
Emotional Disturbances
Emotions
Families & family life
Family environment. Family history
Family Involvement
Family Relations
Female
Females
Gender
Gender Differences
Geographic Distribution
Health Surveys
Humans
Information Dissemination
Intellectual disabilities
Intellectual Disability
Intellectual Disability - psychology
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Males
Marriage
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders
Middle Aged
National Surveys
Numbers
People with disabilities
Polls & surveys
Pregnancy
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Questionnaires
Research Assistants
Sibling Relations
Sibling Relationship
Siblings
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
State Surveys
Surveys
United States
Websites
Young Adult
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Summary:In this study, the authors used a national, Web-based survey to examine female and male siblings of individuals with disabilities. More than 1,160 adult siblings completed a 163-question survey about themselves, their siblings, and their sibling relationships. Most respondents reported fairly close contact with their siblings and positive sibling relationships, good health, and benefits from being a sibling to a brother-sister with disabilities. Compared with men, women reported benefiting more from the sibling relationship. Relative to the U.S. population, female (though not male) siblings married later and divorced less often, and these women had their first child at later ages. Implications are discussed regarding future research and service needs.
ISSN:1934-9556
1934-9491
1934-9556
DOI:10.1352/1934-9556-48.1.52