Sibling Relationships Over the Life Course : Growing Up With a Disability

The research explores sibling relationships, and the ways in which they are shaped over the life course by family members, in families with a lifelong disability. In-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted with 15 family units including a parent, a sibling, and an adult sibling with a disability. The content analysis revealed five sibling relationship patterns: (a) "Not a child, but a parent caretaker"-the parent-surrogate sibling; (b) "We somehow grew apart"-the estranged sibling; (c) "It is important for me to maintain some kind of distance"-the bystander sibling; (d) "When there's something they want to tell him, they always send me"-the mediator sibling; and (e) "I love him to death"-the friend sibling. These patterns of adult sibling relationships are discussed in relation to family dynamics, values, and legacies; recommendations for practice and research are made.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Qualitative health research - 29(2019), 12 vom: 29. Okt., Seite 1739-1750

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Avieli, Hila [VerfasserIn]
Band-Winterstein, Tova [VerfasserIn]
Araten Bergman, Tal [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

Developmental disability
Families
Health
Interpretive phenomenological analysis
Israel
Journal Article
Lived experience
Qualitative
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 23.09.2020

Date Revised 23.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/1049732319837228

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295431334