Much is hypothesised but little is known about the effects of early adversity on school experience, academic attainment and career aspiration for children and young people adopted from care. Drawing on data from Wave 1 of the Youth (10‒15 years old) Questionnaire (n = 4899) from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS), also known as Understanding Society, this study explored differences between young people adopted (n = 22) and a matched comparison group (n = 110) on measures of educational and occupational aspirations and psychological well-being. Adopted young people reported higher externalising and total difficulties scores (based on the SDQ, Goodman, 1997) than the general population comparison group, but equivalent internalising symptoms. Adopted children were more likely to show an intention to seek full-time work at the end of compulsory schooling. These findings align with previous research regarding the psychological well-being of adopted children, contribute new knowledge about the aspirations of young people adopted from care and highlight methodological issues when utilising large-scale panel survey data for narrowly defined sub-groups.

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英国收养年轻人的教育愿望和心理健康

有很多假设，但关于早期逆境对从护理机构收养的儿童和年轻人的学校经历、学业成就和职业抱负的影响知之甚少。本研究利用来自英国家庭纵向调查 (UKHLS)（也称为理解社会）的青年（10-15 岁）问卷第 1 波（n = 4899）的数据，探讨了所收养的年轻人（n = 22) 和匹配的比较组 (n = 110) 测量教育和职业愿望以及心理健康。被收养的年轻人报告的外化和总困难分数（基于 SDQ，古德曼，1997 年）高于一般人群对照组，但内化症状相同。被收养的孩子更有可能在义务教育结束时表现出寻求全日制工作的意图。这些发现与之前关于收养儿童心理健康的研究一致，提供了关于从照料中收养的年轻人的愿望的新知识，并在对狭义的子群体使用大规模面板调查数据时突出了方法论问题。