Sibling Relationships of Children With Down Syndrome: Perspectives of Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings
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Sibling relationships of children with Down syndrome: perspectives of mothers, fathers, and siblings.
Fifty-four siblings of children with Down syndrome and their parents and an individually matched group of comparison children and parents provided data about the quality of sibling relationships. There were no group differences in parental reports, but siblings of children with Down syndrome reported less unkindness and, if in a same-sex dyad, more empathy than did comparison children. There we...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal on Mental Retardation
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0895-8017
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2003)108<234:srocwd>2.0.co;2