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Showing 1 to 20 of 506 for “"Siblings"”.
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Siblings In Foster Care
… support and connectedness across the lifespan. Siblings may provide an important source of social support, friendship and instrumental support to one another from childhood to later life. The meaning of sibling connections for foster children, whose connection to parents and adult caregivers has …
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Communication Among Emerging Adult Siblings
… bring new meaning to why and how emerging adult siblings communicate. Also, by including both siblings, this study sought to highlight a different perspective of sibling communication. Extant research on the emerging adulthood stage of life is limited. The current study explored the sibling dyad …
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Social development and behavioural reciprocity in young rhesus monkeys with their siblings and non-siblings
… partners, were assessed for each pair of siblings and of non-siblings. Interaction Reciprocity in play was based on the ratio of play initiations, in grooming on the ratio of time spent grooming, and in proximity on the ratio of approaches and leavings due to each partner. The affiliation …
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Brain Structure in Older Adult Siblings
… thickness in a sample of older adult full siblings: 2-4 individuals per pedigree; N = 75). Estimation of heritability was based on computation of intraclass correlations. Heritability estimates were higher for total cortical thickness compared to volumes. There was no evidence of overall …
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Social skills and siblings in India
… of social skills of children with and without siblings revealed no significant difference between the two groups on aggressive, asocial and prosocial behavior. Additionally, warmth and conflict in children's sibling relationships were not associated with their social skills. The interaction of …
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Childhood Chronic Illness: Impact on Well Siblings
… chronic conditions have on well school-aged siblings in a family? Ten well school aged siblings of chronically ill children were interviewed to identify, describe and analyze the impact on their lives.<br> During analysis of the data obtained from the interviews four major categories of …
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The Immune Status of Two Bloom's Syndrome Siblings
… study examined the immune reactions of these siblings with such tests of immune function as: T- and B-cells, T-cell subsets, chemotaxis, nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT), mitogen stimulation and mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC). Findings. Results are compared with those of other known BS subjects. …
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Siblings’ relational experiences of disability during young adulthood
… outcomes of and caregiving done by siblings of people with disabilities, rather than looking at how disability figures in the everyday relations that siblings both with and without disabilities share. Thus, even though it may be influential, little is known about siblings’ everyday …
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Growing up with autism: Experiences of adult siblings
… the self-report of ASD-sibs with reports from siblings who have a typically developing brother or sister (TD-sib; N = 342). In terms of relationship differences, ASD-sibs reported significantly more negative childhood experiences with their sibling, received less parental attention, and had …
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Literacy-Related Activities Of Young Siblings Engaged In Play
… method to gather data about young siblings and their interactions with each other as they engaged in literacy-related play activities in the home. The mothers of four sets of siblings collected the initial data in their rural home settings. The fieldwork took place over a period of …
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Anxiety in childhood: parental expectations, differential parenting and siblings
… is an empirical paper, which explores anxiety in siblings, perceived differential parenting, fairness of parenting and self-esteem. Part three comprises the appendices, which provide further information regarding the systematic literature review and the empirical paper.
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Intellectual and Interpersonal Competence Between Siblings: The College Years
… is friendship and student communities including siblings. This study expanded the available knowledge based on siblings in general, and addresses gaps in the literature by looking at sense of competence among siblings in college. The purpose of this study is to explore the sense of competence …
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Adolescent siblings' evaluations of the self and their relationship
… intimacy motive scores of pairs of adolescent siblings from the same family were obtained utilizing a thematic apperceptive measure administered under neutral arousal conditions and coded for motivational content by trained judges. The motive scores of individual siblings were associated with …
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Divergence in Siblings' Adult Attachment Security: Potential Contributors and Consequences
… concordance in attachment security between siblings during childhood and adolescence. The first goal of this dissertation was to estimate sibling concordance in adult attachment security and identify factors contributing to divergence. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) was administered to …
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Attachment Relationships Across Siblings and their Common Mother: Patterns and Predictors
… work, however, suggests that the quality of siblings’ relationships is frequently different. Using varied theoretical and methodological approaches, this dissertation expanded upon the existing literature to further explore the nature and underpinnings of variability in the quality of …
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The effect of developmental disabilities on the externalizing behavior of siblings
… are typically developing if one or more of their siblings is a child with a disability. Particularly of interest in this study was the level of externalizing behavior displayed by the typically developing siblings of children who have disabilities; This study compared the externalizing behavior …
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Posttraumatic stress symptoms in young people with cancer and their siblings
… rates of PTSS in children with cancer and their siblings. Secondly, it investigated whether aspects of the Ehlers and Clark (2000) model of PTSD could provide a useful framework for understanding the phenomenon in this population. Methods: A cross-sectional between-groups design was employed to …
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The Experiences of Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities: A Holistic View
<p>The research on siblings of individuals with disabilities has rarely addressed the perceived benefits of having a sibling with a disability. The existing research on the experience of siblings of persons with disabilities is also limited to European American families (Sage & Jegatheesan, 2010). …
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