High family SES and youth adjustment: The case of Chinese youth who were adopted from orphanages into American families
| Autor: | Linda A. Camras, Tony Xing Tan, Zhiyao Yi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Institutionalisation 05 social sciences Behavioral assessment 050301 education Education Developmental psychology Chinese youth Prosocial behavior Developmental and Educational Psychology Survey data collection 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology China 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Children and Youth Services Review. 110:104784 |
| ISSN: | 0190-7409 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104784 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we examined if high SES families had an effect on youth’s adjustment by comparing 226 internationally adopted female Chinese youth who experienced pre-adoption institutionalization with 1059 non-adopted Chinese peers living in China, as well as 209 non-adopted American peers. On average, the adopted youth’s families had a higher SES status than the two comparison groups. Survey data on behavioral problems and prosocial adjustment were collected with the third edition of the Behavioral Assessment for Children (BASC-3). We found the adopted Chinese youth outperformed their Chinese counterparts in all comparisons and their US counterparts in most comparisons. These results offer some evidence that a high family SES may compensate for the adoption-related risks such as earlier institutionalization. Possible mechanisms underlying the benefit of high SES were discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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