Obraz rodzeństwa chorego psychicznie a dobrostan rodzeństwa zdrowego
A perception of siblings who are mentally ill and the well-being of their mentally well kin

Summary/Abstract: This article is concerned with issues related to mental well-being by healthy individuals with siblings who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or depression. The purpose of the research project was to find a link between the sibling’s personality and cognitive assessment of their illness and the psychological well-being of siblings. The study involved 30 individuals whose siblings were mentally ill. Measurement of mental well-being of healthy people was done by The Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWB) by C. D. Ryff and C. L. Keyes. The perception of a real and perfect picture of the sibling’s personality was characterized by H. Gough and A. B. Heilburn’s The Adjective Check List (ACL), and the evaluation of the disease was made using S. Steuden, K. Janowski and A. Warda’s The Scale of Evaluation of Sibling’s Mental Illness (SOCOB). The results of the research revealed, among other things, that healthy siblings have a negative image of their mentally ill brothers and sisters. The generalized sense of well-being of a healthy sibling is higher when it shows more positively the image of the sibling’s personality. The assumption that the divergence between a real and ideal personality image will result in lower well-being by healthy siblings has not been confirmed by the study.

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