Early Developmental and Psychosocial Risks and Longitudinal Behavioral Adjustment Outcomes for Preschool-Age Girls Adopted from China

Autor/inn/en	Tan, Tony Xing; Marfo, Kofi; Dedrick, Robert F.
Titel	Early Developmental and Psychosocial Risks and Longitudinal Behavioral Adjustment Outcomes for Preschool-Age Girls Adopted from China
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 31 (2010) 4, S.306-314 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0193-3973
DOI	10.1016/j.appdev.2010.04.002
Schlagwörter	Females; Adjustment (to Environment); Foreign Countries; Disadvantaged Environment; Adoption; Risk; Longitudinal Studies; Preschool Children; Residential Institutions; Social Adjustment; Measures (Individuals); Prediction; Emotional Adjustment; Regression (Statistics); Interpersonal Competence; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Risiko; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Wohnumgebung; Soziale Anpassung; Messdaten; Vorhersage; Emotionale Anpassung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Interpersonale Kompetenz
Abstract	The central goal of this longitudinal study was to examine behavioral adjustment outcomes in a sample of preschool-age adopted Chinese girls. Research examining the effects of institutional deprivation on post-adoption behavioral outcomes for internationally adopted children has been constrained by the frequent unavailability of data on the institutional experiences of adopted children. Using child-level measures of the residual effects of pre-adoption deprivation or adversity, the present study of 452 preschool-age girls adopted from China tested the hypothesis that these measures will better predict behavioral adjustment (as measured on the CBCL/1.5-5) than age at adoption (AAA), used conventionally as a proxy measure of the magnitude of deprivation effects. Along with AAA (M = 13.1 months, SD = 5.1), our measures were used to predict behavioral adjustment at two time points (M[subscript age] = 2.7 years at Time 1 and 4.8 years at Time 2). There was strong stability in behavioral adjustment across time, and the regression results showed that delays in social skills, refusal/avoidance behaviors, and crying/clinging behaviors at the time of adoption, rather than AAA, predicted behavioral adjustment outcomes. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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