Warren S B
University of Chicago, IL.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1992 May;31(3):512-7. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199205000-00019.
Epidemiological data on a national sample of 3,698 adolescents, of whom 145 were adopted, indicate that adoption significantly increases the likelihood of referral for psychiatric treatment even after controlling for the fact that adoptees display more behavior problems and come from more educated families. This is accounted for by the fact that adoptees are significantly more likely to be referred when they display few problems. Thus, contrary to popular myth and clinical lore, the overrepresentation of young adoptees in clinical settings is not attributable solely to the fact that adoptees are more troubled. Rather, adoptees do display more problems but they are also referred more readily even after controlling for extent of problems.
对一个包含3698名青少年的全国性样本（其中145名是被收养者）的流行病学数据表明，即使在控制了被收养者表现出更多行为问题且来自受教育程度更高的家庭这一事实之后，收养仍显著增加了被转介接受精神治疗的可能性。这是因为当被收养者表现出较少问题时，他们被转介的可能性显著更高。因此，与普遍的误解和临床经验相反，临床环境中年轻被收养者的比例过高并非仅仅归因于被收养者问题更多这一事实。相反，被收养者确实表现出更多问题，但即使在控制了问题程度之后，他们也更容易被转介。
