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Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remains a major public
health and economic problem worldwide. Autistic children in the family
affect siblings’ personality, emotionas and behaviors. Aim: to assess
personality traits, emotional and behavioral difficulties among siblings of
children with ASD. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was
used to conduct this study. Sample: Convenience sample in Ismailia city,
Setting: Children & Adolescent psychiatric Outpatient clinic in Suez Canal
University Hospitals (SCUH). El-Aml center for Children with Special
Needs. Primary Schools (El-Terbia El-Fekria. Gamal El-Din El-Afghani.
and Ard-El-Mashtl). Tools: Three tools were used to collect the necessary
data consisted of; structured questittionaire data sheet, Hierarchical
Personality Inventory for Children, Strengths and Difficulties
Questionnaire (SDQ) and Sibling Inventory of Behavior (SIB) Results:
shows that the majority of siblings of autistic children were have negative
personality traits (81%) and the most common type extroversion
personality traits (46.43%) and the majority of siblings have aggressive
behavior, regarding to emotional symptoms the majority of sibling have
moerate levels of emotional symptoms. Conclusion: There was a
statistically significace difference between age of siblings of autistic
children and their personality traits, emotional and behavioral difficulties,
there was a strong positive statistically correlation between peer problems
and emotional symptoms Recommendations: Designing and applying
psycho educational program about coping methods to enable siblings for
dealing with their autistic children and how parents deal with them.
Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder, Behavioral difficulties,
Emotional difficulties, Personality traits, Siblings.