Doing Nothing: Adults With Disabilities With No Daily Activities and Their Siblings

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http://www.aaiddjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1352/1944-7558-117.1.67

Doing Nothing: Adults With Disabilities With

No Daily Activities and Their Siblings

A study in the

January Issue of American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

by researchers affiliated with Vanderbilt University examined predictors of

such inactivity in individuals with intellectual and deve lopmental

disabilities, as well as how inactivity related to their sibling's well-being

and the sibling relationship. Authors report that adults with

intellectual and developmental disabilities who had no activities had much

higher levels of emotional–behavioral and health problems and fewer functional

abilities than their counterparts with activities, and that those siblings

whose brother or sister had no (vs. any) activities had higher depressive

symptoms.