Vorria P, Rutter M, Pickles A, Wolkind S, Hobsbaum A
University of Ioannina, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy-Education and Psychology, Greece.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1998 Feb;39(2):237-45.
Forty-one children reared in group care were compared with 41 age- and sex-matched family care children according to interview, questionnaire, and observation measures of behavioural and scholastic functioning. Individual differences in outcome within the group care sample were examined in relation to a range of possible risk/protective indicators. The strongest predictor of outcome proved to be the reason for admission into residential care, with the implication that the outcome was best for children who had experienced stable, harmonious family relationships in their early years. The risk and protective effects applied to both the children's behaviour and scholastic attainments but, although the two were intercorrelated, neither accounted for the other. All subgroups of children in institutional care failed to show a lack of confiding peer relationships, with the pattern of findings suggesting that this stemmed from some aspect of experiences (possibly involving peer relationships) during residential care, as well as from discontinuity in caregiving during the early years.
根据行为和学业功能的访谈、问卷及观察指标，对41名在集体照料中成长的儿童与41名年龄和性别匹配的家庭照料儿童进行了比较。针对集体照料样本中的个体差异，研究了一系列可能的风险/保护指标。结果表明，入院进入寄宿照料的原因是结果的最强预测因素，这意味着早年经历过稳定、和谐家庭关系的儿童结果最佳。风险和保护效应适用于儿童的行为和学业成就，虽然二者相互关联，但彼此并不相互影响。机构照料中的所有儿童亚组均未表现出缺乏可信赖的同伴关系，研究结果模式表明，这源于寄宿照料期间的某些经历（可能涉及同伴关系）以及早年照料的不连续性。
