Adoption as a natural experiment
Adoption as a natural experiment
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579403000427
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Hazan, C
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作者：
Haugaard, JJ;Hazan, C
收养为研究儿童发展提供了一个独特的机会。因为被收养的孩子是在与父母没有遗传关系的家庭中长大的，他们可能与兄弟姐妹也没有遗传关系，所以他们提供了一个难得的机会来研究遗传、共享环境和非共享环境对儿童特征和行为发展的相对重要性。由于儿童是从各种情况下，在广泛的年龄范围内，被收养的儿童和他们的家庭的研究提供了研究人员的机会，以检查短期和长期的影响，广泛的环境对儿童的发展。因为儿童被收养到具有一系列特征的家庭（例如，多种族家庭），收养提供了研究这些家庭对儿童发展的影响范围的机会。本文对这些领域的收养研究进行了综述。我们目前的结论在心理学研究中的价值和一些原因，许多心理学家忽视了研究收养家庭的机会，以及潜在的有用的方向，为未来的研究与收养儿童及其家庭。
Adoption provides a unique opportunity for the study of child development. Because adopted children are raised in families in which they have no genetic relationship with their parents, and possibly none with their siblings, they provide a rare opportunity to study the relative importance of genetic, shared environmental, and nonshared environmental influences on the development of child characteristics and behaviors. Because children are adopted from a variety of circumstances and at a wide range of ages, studies of adopted children and their families provide researchers the opportunity to examine the short- and long-term influences of a wide range of environments on children's development. Because children are adopted into homes with a range of characteristics (e.g., multiracial homes), adoption provides the opportunity to study the range of influences of these homes on child development. Adoption research that focuses on each of these areas is reviewed in this article. We present conclusions about the value of adoption in psychological research and some reasons why many psychologists ignore the opportunities presented by studying adoptive families, as well as potential useful directions for future research with adopted children and their families.