Adult sibling expressed emotion towards individuals with intellectual disabilities : an investigation into the relationship between sibling influences and behavioural outcome

Rouse, Lindsey (2003) Adult sibling expressed emotion towards individuals with intellectual disabilities : an investigation into the relationship between sibling influences and behavioural outcome. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.

Record type: Thesis (Doctoral)

Abstract

This thesis looks at sibling expressed emotion (EE) towards brothers and sisters with intellectual disabilities (ID). The first paper discusses family influences on children’s outcome with a focus on those of siblings, both in childhood and adulthood. In order to examine adult sibling relationships and their relation to outcome the construct of EE is considered, with a focus on its previous application to parents of individuals with ID and siblings of other clinical groups. The clinical importance of understanding these relationships is explored.

The second paper explores suggestions for future research made in the literature review, by application of the construct of EE to adult siblings of individuals with ID. Results suggest that siblings EE is related to a number of sibling characteristics and may predict some behavioural variance in individuals with ID. These findings warrant further investigation of EE with this population.

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