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Item Increasing parental awareness of children's feelings in families of disabled children(Texas Tech University, 1979-08) Murphy, Cassie L.Tha purpose of the present study was to assess the effectivanass of a videotape developed for viewing by parents of disabled children. Tha program was designed to provide information which would increase parents': (a) parcaption of children's concerns and feelings, (b) ability to identify children's feelings, (c) acceptance of children's feelings, (d) awareness of negative feelings about having a disabled sibling, and (a) factual information. Tan married couples who ware parents of a disabled child and had at least one other child in the home ware shown a videotape. Siblings of Disabled Children. Major emphasis was placed on tha concerns and feelings of the nondisabled siblings. Comparisons ware made with a control group of ten couples who were given no treatment. One weak prior to and one week following training, subjects completed a series of paper and pencil measures on tha specified variables. Results indicated that parents who had viewed the videotape, relative to the control group, had increased their awareness about possible negative feelings their nondisabled children might have toward a disabled sibling. No significant changes occurred among tha four remaining variables. Discussion cantered around the need for more refined measurement techniques to assess changes in parents' perception of children's feelings, and tha need for alternate research designs utilizing a larger sample and the videotape in conjunction with other delivery modes.Item Psychological well-being of siblings in late adulthood(Texas Tech University, 1998-08) Morelock, Catherine N.Equity theory was applied to explore (a) the relationship between overall, affective, and instrumental support equity and psychological well being and (b) the relationship between sibling role performance and overall relationship equity in a sample of older adult siblings. The effect of sibling gender on psychological well being was also examined. The sample used for the study was drawn from Generation 1 and Generation 2 of the Longitudinal Study of Generations at Time 5 (1994). The analyses of covariance revealed no significant differences in psychological well being by relationship equity. However, the results showed a systematic pattern which was in the predicted direction. Subjects who maintained equitable relationships in terms of affective and overall support had higher psychological well being scores when compared to subjects in over or underbenefited relationships. Subjects in equitable relationships rated their sibling role performance as higher than those in inequitable relationships, but the difference was not statistically significant. Sibling gender had no effect on psychological well being. Study strengths, limitations, and directions for future research were discussed.Item Role-taking abilities in firstborn and only preschool children(Texas Tech University, 1979-12) Karther, Diane EdnaNot availableItem Young adult sibling relationships(Texas Tech University, 1997-08) Yaktus, Tamara RanaeA survey was conducted of 378 undergraduate students who reported on their "closest" and "least close" sibling relationships. The proposed model included both dyadic relationship variables (relative age, sex of dyad, age spacing) and systemic family variables (family size, sex of sibship, family type). Respondents rated positive and negative qualities of their closest and least close sibling relationships. Chodorow's object-relations theory, based on the traditional family (with the mother as the primary caregiver), provided the contextual base for the model. For this study, the theory was expanded to include families in which the father was involved in childcare and/or household tasks. Further, while Chodorow only considers the mother-father-child triad, this study also included same-sex and cross-sex sibling relationships. Contrary to expectations based on the childhood sibling literature, relative age and age spacing were not significant factors in these young adults' sibling relationships. Predictably, there were significant differences between the positive and negative qualities of sibling relationships. Further, participants rated their closest sibling relationship more positively than their least close sibling relationship. However, the two types of relationships differed only minimally on negativity ratings. There were significant correlations between the positive ratings of the closest and least close sibling relationships and between the negative ratings of those relationships. This finding emphasizes the importance of family context in determining sibling relationships. In tests of the proposed model, there were significant interactions between respondent sex, sex of the sibling, and the sibling relationships (closest, least close). For ratings of closest siblings, same-sex relationships were more positive, and for male respondents more negative, than were cross-sex relationships. Similarly, having a same-sex closest sibling was associated with more positive and less negative least close sibling relationships regardless of the sex of the least close sibling. Results also suggest sibship sex (all-male, allfemale, mixed-sex) is important to the closest sibling relationship, while the larger context of family type (egalitarian, modern, traditional) is important to the least close sibling relationship. Both dyadic and contextual variables, therefore, appear important to understanding the dynamics of young adult sibling relationships.