Investigation of the Self-Efficacy in Siblings of Slow Paced Children with or without Clinical Symptoms

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This study investigated self-efficacy in siblings of slow paced children, based on the visibility of the disability. 30 adolescent students with slow paced siblings participated in this study that 15 of them had slow-paced siblings with visible clinical symptoms and others had slow paced siblings without these symptoms. They were chosen by simple random sampling and their self-efficacy was examined via child and adolescent self-efficacy questionnaire (Muris, 2001). To analyze the data, the multivariate variance analysis methods (MANOVA) and the point-biserial correlation coefficient were used. Findings indicated that total self-efficacy (p<0.01), educational self-efficacy (p<0.01), and emotional self- efficacy (p<0.05) among the siblings of the slow paced children with clinical visible symptoms are less than siblings of a slow paced child without symptoms. In addition, a meaningful relationship has been found in the visible clinical symptoms among the siblings of a slow paced child with total self-efficacy (p<0.01), educational (p<0.01), and emotional (p<0/01). The current study indicates the effective role of clinical visible symptoms along with the slow pacing feature in child, regarding to self-efficacy of his/her adolescent siblings

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