A Longitudinal Study of Adopted Youth and Their Families

被收养青少年及其家庭的纵向研究

• 批准号: 6834601
• 负责人: MATTHEW K. MCGUE
• 金额: $ 67.35万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-10 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6834601
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; caregivers; child behavior; child foster care /adoption; child rearing; clinical research; developmental psychology; environment; family structure /dynamics; father child interaction; human genetic material tag; interview; longitudinal human study; mother child interaction; parents; psychological adaptation; questionnaires; sibling relations; substance abuse related disorder

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A longitudinal study of 400 adoptive and 200 nonadoptive families is proposed to address recent critiques of research aimed at identifying environmental influences on psychological adjustment. Specifically, we seek to confirm the existence of shared environmental influences on adolescent problem behavior, determine whether they are developmentally stable, and explicate the specific sibling and parent factors that underlie their effect. Participating families will consist of adolescent sibling pairs and parents who completed an extensive in-person mental health and psychological assessment three years prior to the proposed follow-up. The in-person follow-up assessment will focus on the siblings and their primary caregivers and closely parallel the intake assessment by including: 1) mental health, 2) substance use and abuse, 3) behavioral Jeviance, 4) family and sibling relations, 5) adoption-specific risk factors, 6) individual-level risk factors, 7) other environmental risk and protective factors, and 8) demographic factors. The focus of the data analysis will be on: 1) estimating the strength of shared environmental influences using standard behavioral genetic models, 2) determining whether parent characteristics are associated with adolescent outcome in adoptive families, where genetic mediation is controlled, 3) testing a developmental model of sibling effects based on the notion of "legitimization", and 4) determining whether specific environmental factors potentiate individual-level risk factors. Our large, representative sample of adopted adolescents also gives us an unprecedented opportunity to rigorously explore the adjustment of adopted individuals who had been placed in infancy. In this regard, we are especially interested in the adjustment of adopted individuals relative to nonadopted individuals, the contribution of adoption-specific risk factors to adoptee adjustment, and the effect of age on adoptees' concerns about birth background and ethnic identification.

描述（由申请人提供）：400个收养和200个非收养家庭的纵向研究，提出了解决最近的研究，旨在确定心理调整的环境影响的批评。具体来说，我们试图确认存在的共享环境的影响，青少年的问题行为，确定他们是否是发展稳定，并阐明具体的兄弟姐妹和父母的因素，其影响的基础。参与的家庭将包括青少年兄弟姐妹对和父母，他们在拟议的随访前三年完成了广泛的面对面心理健康和心理评估。亲自随访评估将侧重于兄弟姐妹及其主要照顾者，并与摄入评估密切平行，包括：1）心理健康，2）物质使用和滥用，3）行为Jeviance，4）家庭和兄弟姐妹关系，5）收养特定风险因素，6）个人水平风险因素，7）其他环境风险和保护因素，以及8）人口统计学因素。数据分析的重点将是：1）使用标准行为遗传模型估计共享环境影响的强度，2）确定父母特征是否与收养家庭中的青少年结果相关，其中遗传中介被控制，3）基于“合法化”概念测试兄弟姐妹效应的发展模型，以及4）确定特定的环境因素是否增强个体水平的风险因素。我们大量的、有代表性的被收养青少年样本也给了我们一个前所未有的机会，来严格探索被收养的人在婴儿期的适应情况。在这方面，我们特别感兴趣的调整，通过个人相对于nonadopted个人，收养特定的风险因素的贡献，被收养人的调整，和年龄对被收养人的出生背景和种族认同的关注。