Premium
The sources and manifestations of stress amongst school‐aged dyslexics, compared with sibling controls
Author(s) -
AlexanderPasse Neil
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
dyslexia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-0909
pISSN - 1076-9242
DOI - 10.1002/dys.351
Subject(s) - sibling , psychology , loneliness , developmental psychology , shyness , dyslexia , stress (linguistics) , clinical psychology , anxiety , social psychology , reading (process) , linguistics , philosophy , psychiatry , political science , law
All school children experience stress at some point in their school careers. This study investigates whether dyslexic children, by way of their educational and social difficulties, experience higher levels of stress at school. The School Situation Survey was used to investigate both the sources and manifestations of stress amongst dyslexic children and non‐dyslexic sibling controls. Samples were broken down by gender, age and the size of families. Results suggest significant differences between the groups, with dyslexics in academic years 3–5 experiencing the highest stress levels, specifically in interactions with teachers, worries over academic examinations (SATs) and performance testing, causing emotional (fear, shyness and loneliness) and physiological (nausea, tremors or rapid heart beat) manifestations. Results also suggest that dyslexics in larger families (3–4 sibling families) experience greater stress in interactions with their peers, than those in smaller families (two sibling families)—possibly from unfair sibling comparison. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.