Dhavale Hs, Bhagat Vinaya, Thakkar Poornima
J Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2005 Jan;17(1):27-30. doi: 10.2989/17280580509486589.
A review of existing literature concludes that there is an increased risk for the development of behaviour problems among adopted children compared to non-adopted children. This study was conducted with the objective of finding out whether the findings are consistent within the Indian context, which offers a different psycho-cultural setting to most western settings in which the previous studies were carried out. We compared groups of adopted children and non-adopted children on various parameters i.e. Parent Symptom Questionnaire (PSQ), ADHD rating scale, Alabama Parenting Questionnaire and the Social Adjustment Inventory for Children and Adolescents (SAICA). The Malin's intelligence scale for Indian children (MISIC) was administered to the children for assessing IQ while the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) was used to diagnose psychopathology. We found that adopted children had more behaviour problems on the PSQ. On SAICA, adopted children showed less social competence. The parenting practices as revealed by the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire did not differ between the two groups. The IQ of the children in both groups was within the normal range. We concluded that the psycho-social consequences of adoption in India do not differ from those of other countries, all of which show a higher incidence of behaviour problems in adopted children.
对现有文献的综述得出结论，与非领养儿童相比，领养儿童出现行为问题的风险更高。本研究旨在查明在印度背景下这些研究结果是否一致，印度提供了与之前开展研究的大多数西方背景不同的心理文化环境。我们在各种参数上对领养儿童组和非领养儿童组进行了比较，即父母症状问卷（PSQ）、注意力缺陷多动障碍评定量表、阿拉巴马父母问卷以及儿童和青少年社会适应量表（SAICA）。对儿童施测了印度儿童马林智力量表（MISIC）以评估智商，同时使用《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》（DSM - IV）来诊断精神病理学。我们发现，领养儿童在PSQ上存在更多行为问题。在SAICA上，领养儿童表现出较低的社会能力。阿拉巴马父母问卷所揭示的养育方式在两组之间没有差异。两组儿童的智商都在正常范围内。我们得出结论，在印度，领养的心理社会后果与其他国家并无不同，所有国家都表明领养儿童中行为问题的发生率更高。
