Questionnaire and interview inconsistencies exaggerated differences between adopted and non-adopted adolescents in a national sample

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 7-27

  Fan, Xitao ^a   Miller, Brent C ^a   Christensen, Mathew ^a   Park, Kyung Eun ^a   Grotevant, Harold D ^a   van Dulmen, Manfred ^a   Dunbar, Nora ^a   Bayley, Bruce ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Add health; Adoption status; Comparison between adopted and non adopted; Self report inconsistencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844318678     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v06n02_02     Document Type: Article

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