Indiscriminate behaviors in previously institutionalized young children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study included 54-month-old children with a history of institutional care. Our goal was to: (1) examine differences in indiscriminate social behaviors in children with a history of institutional care compared with home-reared children; (2) test whether foster care reduces indiscriminate social behaviors in a randomized controlled trial; and (3) examine early predictors of indiscriminate behaviors.

Methods

Participants were 58 children with a history of institutional care and 31 never-institutionalized control (NIG) subjects enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of foster care for institutional care, assessed from toddlerhood to 54 months. Indiscriminate social behaviors were measured naturalistically by using the Stranger at the Door procedure.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Gleason MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3934326 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature