Social functioning of young adult intercountry adoptees compared to nonadoptees

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-74

  Tieman, Wendy ^a   van der Ende, Jan ^a   Verhulst, Frank C ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adoption; Educational and professional achievement; Marriage; Parenthood; Sex differences; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMACY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; NETHERLANDS; PARENTHOOD; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARENTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33644527974     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0995-x     Document Type: Article

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