Social Competence in Internationally Adopted and Institutionalized Children

Autor/inn/en	Palacios, Jesus; Moreno, Carmen; Roman, Maite
Titel	Social Competence in Internationally Adopted and Institutionalized Children
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28 (2013) 2, S.357-365 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.08.003
Schlagwörter	Children; Adoption; Peer Groups; Interpersonal Competence; Friendship; Sociometric Techniques; Family Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Freundschaft; Soziometrie; Familienmilieu
Abstract	A growing, sizable proportion of school children do not live in conventional family environments. Among these, internationally adopted children have gained increasing visibility in recent years. While other areas of their behavior have been widely explored, little is known about adopted children's social competence and their integration into peer groups. This study, involving 148 children between 4 and 8 years of age, compared 40 internationally adopted children with 50 children who were residing in institutions for children and 58 community comparison children. Social competence, problems with peers and friendship relationships were assessed using SSRS and SDQ, with both parents/caretakers and teachers as the informants. The sociometric status of the children and their friendship relationships were obtained through their teachers' reports. The results showed statistically significant differences between children living in institutions (more problems with peers, poorer social skills and sociometric status) and those in family environments, whether adopted and non-adopted. Also, the results suggest some minor differences between the adopted and the comparison children, the former with greater visibility and the latter with higher sociometric status in the peer group. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10