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Adolescents: typically developing siblings and siblings with severe disability
- Author:
- ALANT E.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Maatskaplike Werk, 38(1), 2002, pp.62-70.
The aim of this study was to establish adolescents' perceptions of their siblings with a severe disability as well as the degree and type of social support they utilise. Seventeen adolescents with siblings with a severe disability were interviewed. Results showed that guilt feelings were more frequently experienced amongst the adolescents with siblings with a severe disability and these subjects tended not to freely express their feelings about their sibling with a disability. Amongst the control group the majority of the adolescents had a positive cognitive appraisal of their normal functioning siblings, although these adolescents did express ambivalent emotions towards the sibling relationship.