Adolescent callous-unemotional traits and conduct disorder in adoptees exposed to severe early deprivation
Researchers assessed conduct disorder and traits described as callous-unemotional at the age-15 follow-up of the English and Romanian Adoptees study. Clinical interviews and parent and young-person questionnaires showed no significant association between the two after accounting for measured differences. Most young people with high scores on these traits did not have conduct disorder in this sample.
Limitations: This concerns a historical cohort exposed to extreme Romanian institutional deprivation, followed after adoption into UK families. It does not represent adoption generally or establish that adoption caused the difficulties. Publications from this cohort use overlapping participants; regional coverage is not separately specified in the abstract. These are historical research constructs and group-level questionnaire results, not labels that should be applied to adoptees generally.
- Research type
- Longitudinal cohort study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: adolescents
Adoption context: Intercountry adoption following institutional care; within-UK adoption comparison
Programme: English and Romanian Adoptees Study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adolescence, adoptee voice, behaviour, institutional deprivation, mental health
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional breakdown not specified)
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