Gardner H
Psychology Department, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia.
Child Welfare. 1996 Mar-Apr;75(2):161-82.
Forty-three children in family foster care and 42 matched controls completed the Kvebaek Family Sculpture Technique, choosing figures to represent family members and placing these on a board to indicate how close they felt to each. Each child's ideal family representation was also obtained. The children in care consistently related to their foster family, rather than their biological kin, as "family." There was no evidence that these children in care preferred to live with their biological family. These findings are limited to children in long-term care, and may be further restricted because the family foster care sample consisted of children aged eight to 15 who had no disabilities. Nevertheless, the results have implications for family foster care policy.
43名处于家庭寄养状态的儿童和42名匹配的对照组儿童完成了克韦贝克家庭雕塑技术，他们选择人物代表家庭成员，并将这些人物放在一块板子上，以表明他们感觉彼此之间有多亲近。同时还获取了每个孩子对理想家庭的描绘。接受寄养照顾的儿童始终将他们的寄养家庭而非亲生亲属视为“家人”。没有证据表明这些接受寄养照顾的儿童更愿意与亲生家庭生活在一起。这些发现仅限于长期寄养的儿童，并且可能会受到进一步限制，因为家庭寄养样本仅包括8至15岁且无残疾的儿童。尽管如此，这些结果对家庭寄养政策具有启示意义。
