title: Observing relationships in Finnish adoptive families: Oulu Family Rating Scale.
abstract: Adoption studies were intended to separate genetic from environmental "causal" factors. In earlier adoption studies, psychiatric diagnostic labels for the adoptive parents were used as a proxy for the multiple dimensions of the family rearing environment. In the Finnish Adoption Study, research design provided the opportunity to study directly the adoptive family rearing environment. For this purpose 33 sub-scales were selected creating what we call Oulu Family Rating Scale (OPAS, Oulun PerheArviointiSkaala). In this paper, the manual for scoring of these sub-scales is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry of Oulu University, Oulu, Finland. ptienari@sun3.oulu.fi
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tienari
authors.forename: Lyman C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Wynne
authors.forename: Anneli
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sorri
authors.forename: Ilpo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lahti
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moring
authors.forename: Pentti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nieminen
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joukamaa
authors.forename: Mikko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naarala
authors.forename: Markku
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seitamaa
authors.forename: Karl-Erik
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Wahlberg
authors.forename: Jouko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miettunen
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D019370:Observation; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires