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Abstract Abstract VI Abstract 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. |