Anxiety and Depression Symptomatology in Adult Siblings of Individuals with Different Developmental Disability Diagnoses

O'Neill, Linda P.; Murray, Lindsay

dc.contributor.author	O'Neill, Linda P.	*
dc.contributor.author	Murray, Lindsay	*
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-16T14:51:16Z	en
dc.date.available	2016-03-16T14:51:16Z	en
dc.date.issued	2016-01-25	en
dc.identifier.citation	O'Neill, L., & Murray, L. (2016). Anxiety and Depression Symptomatology in Adult Siblings of Individuals with Different Developmental Disability Diagnoses. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 51-52, 116-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.12.017	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.ridd.2015.12.017	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10034/601456	en
dc.description.abstract	Factors predicting the emotional well-being of adult siblings of those with developmental disability (DD) remain under-researched. In this study adult siblings of individuals with Down’s syndrome, autism, Prader-Willi syndrome and those with DD but with unknown aetiology were compared with each other and a closely-matched control group to ascertain if sibling disability type made a difference to anxiety and/or depression levels. Also considered was the interactive effect of gender, age, parental and sibling educational attainment levels, socio-economic status and birth order on anxiety and depression outcomes. With the exception of siblings of those with Down’s syndrome, adult siblings of those with ASD, PWS and DUA reported significantly higher levels of anxiety and depression than the control group. There were some predictive effects for anxiety and depression of the demographic variables but none common to all disability types and no moderating effects of demographic factors were found. Consequently other solutions must be found as to why this important group of people have elevated rates of anxiety and depression in comparison to the general population.
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en
dc.relation.url	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891422215300391	en
dc.subject	Adult siblings	en
dc.subject	Developmental disabilities	en
dc.subject	Anxiety	en
dc.subject	Depression	en
dc.subject	Demographics	en
dc.subject	Birth order	en
dc.title	Anxiety and Depression Symptomatology in Adult Siblings of Individuals with Different Developmental Disability Diagnoses	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.identifier.eissn	1873-3379	en
dc.contributor.department	University of Chester	en
dc.identifier.journal	Research in Developmental Disabilities	en
dc.date.accepted	2015-12-30
html.description.abstract	Factors predicting the emotional well-being of adult siblings of those with developmental disability (DD) remain under-researched. In this study adult siblings of individuals with Down’s syndrome, autism, Prader-Willi syndrome and those with DD but with unknown aetiology were compared with each other and a closely-matched control group to ascertain if sibling disability type made a difference to anxiety and/or depression levels. Also considered was the interactive effect of gender, age, parental and sibling educational attainment levels, socio-economic status and birth order on anxiety and depression outcomes. With the exception of siblings of those with Down’s syndrome, adult siblings of those with ASD, PWS and DUA reported significantly higher levels of anxiety and depression than the control group. There were some predictive effects for anxiety and depression of the demographic variables but none common to all disability types and no moderating effects of demographic factors were found. Consequently other solutions must be found as to why this important group of people have elevated rates of anxiety and depression in comparison to the general population.