Holsen, Laura M.

Kunce, Faculty Advisor, Linda

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 1999, 10th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 17th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PMSpecific Worries of Children with Siblings whohave Special Needs: A Comparison between DownSyndrome and Typical DevelopmentLaura M. HolsenIllinois Wesleyan UniversityLinda Kunce, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Laura M. Holsen and Linda Kunce, Faculty Advisor, "Specific Worries of Children with Siblings who have Special Needs:A Comparison between Down Syndrome and Typical Development" (April 17, 1999). John Wesley Powell StudentResearch Conference. Paper 12.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/1999/posters2/12THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE 0 APRIL 1999 Poster Presentation 16  SPECIFIC WORRIES OF CIDLDREN WITH SIBLINGS WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN DOWN SYNDROME AND TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT Laura M. Rolsen and Dr. Linda Kunce * Department of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University In this exploratory study, 1 2  children with siblings with Down syndrome and 1 2  children with typically developing siblings were interviewed about general anxiety and specific worries concerning their sibling. Parents completed parallel measures regarding the child participant' s  anxieties as well as a general measure of child behavior. Data were analyzed to determine whether siblings of children with Down syndrome have more specific worries and heightened general anxiety as compared to controls. Differences between siblings as a function of age and gender were also investigated. Implications of the study include validity testing of the sibling worries measure and clinical evaluation of the children' s  use of support systems and need for relevant information about their siblings. 

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