Attachment And Romanian Orphanages

The Experimental Group referred to as RO consisted of 46 children, (20 boys and 26 girls) who had spent at least 8 months in a Romanian orphanage prior to their adoption to Canada. The ages of these children ranged from 8 months old to 5 ½ years old, the median age at adoption was 18.5 months old. Time spent in a Romanian orph

Parents of the RO children were interviewed in the homes for about 2.5 hours. All interviews were audiotaped. Questionnaires were left with the parents to complete and return by mail. Interviews with parents of the CB and RC children were conducted by telephone and recorded verbatim by the interviewer. Questionnaires were mailed to the parents of the CB and RC children to be completed and returned by mail.

Attachment security measure was comprised of 23 items with the highest and lowest loadings on the security scale of the Waters and Deane (1985) Attachment Q-sort. Parents responded to each of the 23 items using a 5 point scale 1 = very unlike my child to 5 = very like my child. The interviewer read each item aloud and recorded the parent’s responses. Indiscriminately friendly behavior measure was assessed using 5 questions. The parents’ responses to each question were recorded verbatim and were coded categorically by two independent coders who were blind both to the adoption status of the children and the hypotheses of the study. The responses to the 5 questions were given and score of 1 or 0 (1 IF behavior present, 0 not present). The last measure used was the PSI, or the parenting stress index. Parents in all 3 groups completed the PSI and returned it by mail. Only the parent attachment subscale scores were used for this study. Parents responded to each item using a 5 point scale (1 = strongly agree to 5 = strongly disagree). Scoring of negative items was re

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