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Preschool-age adopted Chinese girls' behaviors that were most concerning to their mothers.

Children's behavioral difficulties are a major source of parental concern. The goals of the current study were to (1) describe preschool-age adopted Chinese girls' behaviors that were most concerning to their adoptive mothers and (2) examine the relation between children's concerning behaviors and p...

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Published in:Adoption Quarterly Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 34 - 50
Main Author: Tan TX
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Mar2010
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        affil: University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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          Adoptive Parents
          Child Behavior
          Child, Adopted
          Parent-Child Relations
          Adoption
          Attachment Behavior
          Checklists
          Chi Square Test
          Child Behavior Checklist
          Child, Preschool
          Chinese Persons
          Coding
          Comparative Studies
          Convenience Sample
          Data Collection Methods
          Descriptive Statistics
          Focus Groups
          Human
          kappa Statistic
          Mothers
          Open-Ended Questionnaires
          Parenting
          Qualitative Studies
          T-Tests
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
      ab: Children's behavioral difficulties are a major source of parental concern. The goals of the current study were to (1) describe preschool-age adopted Chinese girls' behaviors that were most concerning to their adoptive mothers and (2) examine the relation between children's concerning behaviors and parent/child demographics. Qualitative data from 422 mothers on 480 adopted Chinese girls (M = 44.2 months, SD = 15.2) were collected using three sequenced methods (i.e., open-ended question, follow-ups, and a focus group discussion). These girls were adopted at 3 to 60 months of age (M = 13.8, SD = 8.0) and had lived in the adoptive homes for at least 6 months (M = 30.2, SD = 14.4). Data analysis showed that 242 (57.3%) mothers (representing 274 girls) reported one to three concerning behaviors per child (total = 323 concerns), including behaviors that indicated attachment problems (107 or 33.1%), poor social skills (46 or 14.2%), language/speech problems (42 or 13%), sleep problems (29 or 9%), health/physical problems (24 or 7.4%), and problems in other areas (e.g., potty training) (75 or 23.2%). Further analysis showed that the mothers with prior experience of raising adopted children, but not biological children, were more likely to report concerning attachment behaviors than first-time mothers.
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