EDITORIAL article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Human Developmental Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1670389
This article is part of the Research TopicSiblinghood Through Any Disability: The State of the Art and Future DirectionsView all 8 articles
Editorial: Siblinghood through any Disability: The State of the Art and Future Directions 1
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
- 2Institute of Family Medicine, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland
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This Editorial aims to summarise the key themes addressed by the articles published in the Research 15 Topic entitled "Siblinghood through any Disability: The State of the Art and Future Directions", which 16 explores the experiences of siblings of individuals with disabilities. Over the past few years, scholars 17 have devoted increasing attention to the roles served and the experiences lived by siblings of children 18 with disabilities. Recent systematic reviews and empirical studies (e.g., 1-6) have highlighted that the 19 main topics explored include sibling relationships, the roles taken on in supporting their brother or 20 sister with a disability, and the siblings' social and personal functioning. The articles included in this 21Research Topic address many of the themes previously identified in the literature, while also 22 introducing new perspectives that contribute to shaping future research directions. This Research Topic includes a total of seven contributions from five countries: Italy (n = 2), 24Norway (n = 2), Poland (n = 1), Israel (n = 1), and the United Kingdom (n = 1). Altogether, the articles 25 involved 38 authors and 14 expert reviewers in the fields of family systems dynamics and siblinghood. 26Of the included papers, four adopted a quantitative design, two employed a qualitative approach, and 27 one utilised a mixed-methods design.
Keywords: sibling, Siblinghood, resolution of the diagnosis, sibling relationships, family interaction, 12 family dynamics, Interpersonal adjustment, psychological wellbeing
Received: 21 Jul 2025; Accepted: 06 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Levante, Petrocchi and Lecciso. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Annalisa Levante, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
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