The Role of Cultural Dissimilarity Factors on Child Adjustment Following Foster Placement.
The Role of Cultural Dissimilarity Factors on Child Adjustment Following Foster Placement.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.11.016
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发表时间：
2012-04
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Linares LO
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文献类型：
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作者：
Anderson M;Linares LO
了解与儿童寄养经历有关的文化因素很重要，因为这些因素可能有助于儿童心理调整，以便寄养安置。尽管关于种族在寄养安置决策中的作用进行了相当多的公共政策辩论，但几乎没有关于文化差异因素对儿童心理适应的贡献的实证研究，例如儿童进入非亲属安置后不久的内化和外化问题。以N=106名少数民族儿童(集中在62个家庭中)为样本，我们假设亲生家庭和寄养家庭之间的文化差异因素的数量(从0到5)和类型(即种族地位、出生国家和语言)导致儿童内化症状(CDI抑郁和LSD孤独)和外化问题(ECBI进行)，在考虑了家庭和机构聚类并调整混淆变量(儿童年龄、性别和虐待儿童的严重程度)后，我们假设儿童内化症状(CDI抑郁和LSD孤独)和外化问题(ECBI进行)有关。结果表明，不同类型和特定类型的儿童心理适应得分越高，儿童心理适应得分越低。照顾者之间不同的种族地位导致CDI抑郁和LSD孤独症状，而照顾者之间不同的口语导致寄养家庭的ECBI行为问题。这些结果为参与寄养系统的儿童跨性别安置的公共政策辩论提供了信息。
Understanding the cultural factors associated with children's experiences in foster care is important because they may contribute to child psychological adjustment to foster placement. Despite considerable public policy debate of the role of ethnicity on foster placement decisions, there are virtually no empirical studies about the contribution of cultural dissimilarity factors on child psychological adjustment such as internalizing and externalizing problems shortly after children enter non-kinship placement. Using a sample of N =106 ethnic minority children (clustered in 62 families), we hypothesized that the number (ranging from 0 to 5) and types (i.e., ethnic status, country of birth, and spoken language) of cultural dissimilarity factors between biological and foster families contribute to child internalizing symptoms (CDI depression and LSD loneliness) and externalizing problems (ECBI conduct) after considering family and agency clustering and adjusting for confound variables (child age, gender, and severity of child maltreatment). Results showed that a higher number of dissimilar types and certain types contributed to lower scores in child psychological adjustment. Dissimilar ethnic status between caregivers contributes to CDI depression and LSD loneliness symptoms while dissimilar spoken language between caregivers contributed to ECBI conduct problems in the foster home. These results inform the public policy debate of transethnic placements for children involved in the foster care system.
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影响因子：
5.1
作者：
Linares, LO;Montalto, D;Li, M
通讯作者：
Li, M
影响因子：
4
作者：
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通讯作者：
ASHER, SR
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作者：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
Cabrera, Jorge
影响因子：
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作者：
Hollingsworth, LD
通讯作者：
Hollingsworth, LD