Self-reported and parent reported problems in adolescent international adoptees.
Self-reported and parent reported problem behaviors of 1,538 intercountry adopted adolescents aged 14-18 years were compared with those from general population samples; 22% of the adopted boys, and 18% of the adopted girls could be regarded deviant according to self-reports, compared with about 10% of the subjects from the general population. Parents' reports showed a slightly greater difference between adopted versus nonadopted boys. Childhood deprivation was weakly associated with later parent reported, but not with self-reported problems. Racial antagonism was not related to problem behaviors. Adolescence may constitute a period of increased vulnerability for adopted children.
Versluis-den Bieman
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Sophia Children's Hospital/Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Netherlands.
Verhulst
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D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology*; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification