摘要：This study used the person-oriented approach to explore differences in narrative representations of 97 4-,5- and 6-year old children (30 foster care,40 biological famil,17 adopted). Using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery (Bretherton et al,1990),observations were made to obtain children's narrative representations of content themes and performances. Descriptive statistics,ANOVA and hierarchical cluster analyses were performed. The results of this study were that : (1) Biological family children showed more empathy/helping representations. Foster care children and adopted children showed more anxious representations,and foster care children showed more dysregulated aggression. (2) Four clusters of foster care and adopted children and five clusters of family biological children were found.
