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Are There Positive Effects of Having a Sibling with Special Needs? Empathy and Prosociality of Twins of Children with Non-Typical Development
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Rum, Yonat; Genzer, Shir; Markovitch, Noam; Jenkins, Jennifer; Perry, Anat; Knafo-Noam, Ariel – Child Development, 2022
This study examined whether typically developing (TD) twins of non-TD children demonstrate enhanced empathy and prosociality. Of 778 Hebrew-speaking Israeli families who participated in a twin study, 63 were identified to have a non-TD child with a TD twin, and 404 as having both twins TD. TD twins of non-TD children (27% males) were compared to…
Descriptors: Twins, Disabilities, Empathy, Prosocial Behavior