Comparisons of adopted and nonadopted adolescents in a large, nationally representative sample.
Comparisons of adopted and nonadopted adolescents in a large, nationally representative sample.
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在具有全国代表性的大型样本中对收养和非收养青少年进行比较。
DOI：
10.1111/1467-8624.00239
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
vanDulmen,M
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作者：
Miller,BC;Fan,X;Christensen,M;Grotevant,HD;vanDulmen,M
关于被收养的孩子是否比未被收养的孩子有更多的心理和行为问题，有相互矛盾的发现。研究结果存在差异，部分原因是许多以前的研究是基于小的临床样本或自我选择的样本。一项具有全国代表性的学校调查（添加健康）被用来比较采用（n= 1,587）和非采用青少年（总N = 87,165）在各种各样的措施。标准化平均差异表明，被收养的青少年在所有研究领域都面临更高的风险，包括学业成绩和问题，物质使用，心理健康，身体健康，战斗和对父母撒谎。人口统计学和背景变量分析显示，男性、年龄较小或较大的青少年、西班牙裔或亚洲人以及生活在集体家庭或父母教育程度较低的青少年，收养和未收养青少年之间差异的效应量较大。分布分析显示，在结果变量的中间范围内，收养与未收养青少年的比例约为1：1，但在分布的尾部附近，比例为3：1或更高。这些数据清楚地表明，更多的通过青少年有各种问题比他们的nonadopted同龄人;效果大小是小到中等的平均差异的基础上，但分布的比较表明，更大的比例通过比nonadopted青少年在极端的显着的结果变量。
There are conflicting findings about whether adopted children have more psychological and behavioral problems than nonadoptees. Research results are discrepant partly because many previous studies were based on small clinical samples or on samples biased by self‐selection. A nationally representative school survey (Add Health) was used to compare adopted (n= 1,587) and nonadopted adolescents (totalN= 87,165) across a wide variety of measures. Standardized mean differences show that adopted adolescents are at higher risk in all of the domains examined, including school achievement and problems, substance use, psychological well‐being, physical health, fighting, and lying to parents. Demographic and background variable breakdowns show that the effect sizes for differences between adopted and nonadopted adolescents were larger for males, younger or older adolescents, Hispanics or Asians, and adolescents living in group homes or with parents of low education. Distributional analyses revealed approximately a 1:1 ratio of adopted to nonadopted adolescents in the middle ranges of the outcome variables but a ratio of 3:1 or greater near the tails of the distributions. These data clearly show that more adopted adolescents have problems of various kinds than their nonadopted peers; effect sizes were small to moderate based on mean differences, but comparisons of distributions suggest much larger proportions of adopted than nonadopted adolescents at the extremes of salient outcome variables.