Investigation of the Self-Efficacy in Siblings of Slow Paced Children with or without Clinical Symptoms

This study investigated self-efficacy in siblings of slow paced children, based on the visibility of the disability. 30 adolescent students with slow paced siblings participated in this study that 15 of them had slow-paced siblings with visible clinical symptoms and others had slow paced siblings without these symptoms. They were chosen by simple random sampling and their self-efficacy was examined via child and adolescent self-efficacy questionnaire (Muris, 2001). To analyze the data, the multivariate variance analysis methods (MANOVA) and the point-biserial correlation coefficient were used. Findings indicated that total self-efficacy (p