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）：提出了对400个收养和200个非辅助家庭的纵向研究，以解决旨在确定环境对心理调整的影响的最新研究批评。具体而言，我们试图确认存在共同的环境对青少年问题行为的影响，确定它们是否在发育方面稳定，并阐明其效果构成的特定兄弟姐妹和父母因素。参与的家庭将包括青春期的兄弟姐妹和父母，他们在拟议的后续行动之前三年完成了大量的心理健康和心理评估。面对面的后续评估将集中于兄弟姐妹及其主要护理人员，并通过包括：1）心理健康的摄入量与摄入量的评估紧密相似，2）2）使用物质使用和滥用，3）行为Jeviance，4）家庭和兄弟姐妹关系，5）采用特定的特定风险因素，6）个人级别的风险因素，7）其他环境风险因素和其他保护因素和保护性因素，以及8）Demagemosemalssmosemposemposemply和8）demographice commodempolography sopricosempraphy sopricosemprice和8）。数据分析的重点将介绍：1）使用标准行为遗传模型估算共享环境影响的强度，2）确定父母的特征是否与收养家庭中的青少年结果相关，在收养家族中，控制遗传学调解，3）测试基于“合法化的概念”，以及确定特定环境因素是否会构成特定环境因素，以确定基础效应的同性恋模型。我们大型的，代表性的采用青少年样本还为我们提供了一个前所未有的机会，可以严格探索适应婴儿期的被收养人的调整。在这方面，我们对相对于未接管个人的调整，采用特定风险因素对收养者调整的贡献以及年龄对收养者对出生背景和种族认同的关注的影响特别感兴趣。