期刊名称：Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
电子版ISSN：1948-822X
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：4
页码：280-295
DOI：10.5243/jsswr.2012.17
出版社：Society for Social Work and Research
摘要：Data from 3 waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative database, are used to test complex models addressing the developmental links between child adoption or non-adoption and suicidal ideation across adolescence, early young adulthood, and young adulthood. Diverse developmental dynamics are tested, while controlling for a variety of potential demographic confounds. Models are tested comparing kin and non-kin adopted youth to non-adopted youth, as well as the estimated effects of earlier versus later age at adoption to non-adoption. The models suggest modest differences in suicidal ideation during adolescence, early young adulthood, and young adulthood as a function of being adopted versus not-adopted and being adopted at age 4 years or later versus non-adoption.
