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Comparing developmental outcomes for children in care with those for other children in Canada
Author(s) -
Flynn Robert J.,
Biro Chantal
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1998.tb00070.x
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , psychology , test (biology) , agency (philosophy) , developmental psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , welfare , foster care , clinical psychology , medicine , nursing , paleontology , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , political science , law , biology
This study assessed the test–retest reliability and convergent validity of single items from the Assessment and Action Record (AAR), from Looking After Children (Ward, 1995). It also compared developmental outcomes of 43 children cared for by a Canadian child welfare agency and those of an approximate comparison group of 1,600 children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (Statistics Canada, 1995). High and low reliability and validity were found for different AAR items. The children in care had worse outcomes than the comparison children on indicators of educational success and negative behaviour, but not on measures of identity, social and family relationships, or prosocial behaviour.