Adoptees and behavior problems: A meta-analysis

dc.contributor.authorSwinton, Jonathan J.
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-21T16:09:07Z
dc.date.available2011-11-21T16:09:07Z
dc.date.graduationmonthDecemberen_US
dc.date.issued2011-11-21
dc.date.published2011en_US
dc.description.abstractAdoption trends have shifted in the past two decades and as a result, could impact established assumptions about behavior problems among adopted children. A comprehensive meta-analysis was published in 2005 attempting to come to more definitive conclusions regarding adoption behavior and moderators of adoption behavior. However, the study used a sample from over a dozen countries over a 44 year span. This study is a meta-analysis that has replicated many of the questions investigated by the previous analysis with a much more recent 15 year sample of adoptees placed only within the United States. The results show that combined international and domestic adoptee samples, as well as separate international and domestic adoptee samples are more likely to have total, externalizing, and internalizing behavior problems than their non-adopted counterparts. In addition, age at time of assessment, gender of adoptees, and length of time spent with adoptive family may moderate some of the behavior problems experienced by adoptees. Pre-adoptive adversity, age at time of assessment, and study quality were not shown to have moderating influence on behavior of adoptees.en_US
dc.description.advisorJared R. Andersonen_US
dc.description.advisorSandra M. Stithen_US
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.description.departmentDepartment of Family Studies and Human Servicesen_US
dc.description.levelDoctoralen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2097/13098
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherKansas State Universityen
dc.subjectAdoptionen_US
dc.subjectAdoption behavioren_US
dc.subjectAdoption behavior problemsen_US
dc.subjectBehavior problemsen_US
dc.subjectAdopteeen_US
dc.subjectAdoptee behavioren_US
dc.subject.umiBehavioral Sciences (0602)en_US
dc.subject.umiIndividual & Family Studies (0628)en_US
dc.subject.umiSocial Research (0344)en_US
dc.titleAdoptees and behavior problems: A meta-analysisen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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