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Behavioural and School Adjustment of 12–13‐year old Internationally Adopted Children in Norway: a Research Note
Author(s) -
Andresen IngerLise Kvifte
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00877.x
Subject(s) - rutter , psychology , developmental psychology , strengths and difficulties questionnaire , scale (ratio) , el niño , clinical psychology , pediatrics , psychiatry , mental health , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
Rutter's scales for parents and leathers were used to assess the behavioural and emotional adjustment of 151 12–13–year old internationally adopted children. Additional questions about school adjustment were added to the teachers' questionnaire. The majority of the adopted children were found to be well adjusted. However, the adopted children were given higher mean scores both for the full scale and on a “hyperactive” subscale than a comparison group of non‐adopted children. More adopted than non‐adopted children had problems with arithmetic. Adopted boys had higher mean scores than adopted girls on both Rutter scales. Age at adoption was unrelated to outcome.