Janus M, Goldberg S
Psychiatry Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Child Care Health Dev. 1995 Sep;21(5):321-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1995.tb00761.x.
This study investigated the relationship of healthy siblings' empathy to the psychosocial adjustment of children with a congenital heart disease (CHD) in 28 sibling dyads aged 3.5-11 years, as well as the perceived quality of sibling interactions, reported by mothers and children with illness. As in previous studies, children with CHD were reported to have more behaviour problems in the clinical range than either siblings or normative populations. On the basis of a task unconnected with illness issues, siblings were assigned to a high or low empathy group. Children with illness, but not their mothers, saw the siblings with high empathy more positively than those with low empathy. However, the adjustment of the children with illness did not differ between high and low empathy groups. Findings suggest the need to seek children's points of view when studying psychosocial effects of paediatric conditions.
本研究调查了28对年龄在3.5至11岁的兄弟姐妹中，健康兄弟姐妹的同理心与先天性心脏病（CHD）患儿心理社会适应之间的关系，以及母亲和患病儿童报告的兄弟姐妹互动的感知质量。与之前的研究一样，据报道，患有CHD的儿童在临床范围内的行为问题比兄弟姐妹或正常人群更多。基于一项与疾病问题无关的任务，将兄弟姐妹分为高同理心组或低同理心组。患病儿童而非其母亲，对高同理心的兄弟姐妹的看法比低同理心的兄弟姐妹更积极。然而，高同理心组和低同理心组中患病儿童的适应情况并无差异。研究结果表明，在研究儿科疾病的心理社会影响时，有必要了解儿童的观点。
