Effect of Anonymity on Response of Adoptive Parents to a Child-problems Questionnaire

Kraus, J.

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“…The requirement of response anonymity has a long history in the application of surveys of all types, as well as its implications for its adequacy in the ethical standards of scientific research. However, this strategy is also exposed to particular effects due to its subjective value on the privacy of responses [ 3 ], and anonymity has influenced the quality of responses even in ethnocultural research contexts and clinical applications, overestimating scores [ 4 , 5 , 6 ]. On the other hand, in nonclinical samples, anonymity may reduce the sense of responsibility in the response process [ 7 ], even more so in the face of stigmatizing behaviors such as stealing, cheating, psychoactive substance use, and erotophilic behaviors [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ].…”

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Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents

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There is evidence in the literature that anonymity when investigating individual variables could increase the objectivity of the measurement of some psychosocial constructs. However, there is a significant gap in the literature on the theoretical and methodological usefulness of simultaneously assessing the same measurement instrument across two groups, with one group remaining anonymous and a second group revealing identities using names. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the psychometric characteristics of a measure of depressive symptoms in two groups of adolescents as a consequence of identification or anonymity at the time of answering the measuring instrument. The participants were 189 adolescents from Metropolitan Lima; classrooms were randomly assigned to the identified group (n = 89; application requesting to write one’s own name) or to the anonymous group (n = 100; application under usual conditions), who responded to the Childhood Depression Inventory, short version (CDI-S). Univariate characteristics (mean, dispersion, distribution), dimensionality, reliability, and measurement invariance were analyzed. Specific results in each of the statistical and psychometric aspects evaluated indicated strong psychometric similarity. The practical and ethical implications of the present results for professional and research activity are discussed.

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Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents

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Adjustment of Adopted Children and Prognosis from Maternal and Natal Risk Factors

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1978

Children Australia

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The medical examination of the newborn infant for adoption should reduce the risk of the prospective parents adopting a child with a potentially serious disease or abnormality, and ensure that the infant being adopted is healthy (Betheras, 1976). Genetic and clinically obvious conditions apart, an early detection of brain damage was said to be of highest importance in such an examination, because adopting parents “… find it insupportable if a child cannot respond adequately to their love and affection” (Tizard, 1969, p. 44). However, because even gross brain damage may be undetectable in the early weeks of life, and the prediction of future development of the neonate is seldom possible from a paediatric examination (Tizard, 1969; Karelitz, 1956), there appear to be only very limited prospects to reduce “… the magnitude of the risk that adoptive parents must taken when they adopt newborn infants” (Karelitz, 1956, p. 94).

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Adjustment of Adopted Children and Demographic Profile of Adoptive Parents

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1978

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Using 51 manifestations of childhood dysfunction as index of adjustment, the relationship was investigated of 9 demographic characteristics of applicants for adoption to the adjustment of children, when aged 7 to 7 1/2 years, whom they had adopted. 'Good adjustment' was associated with the father having at least completed high school, having a non-manual occupation and an above median income. There was a trend for it to be also associated with the mother having at least completed high school, being under 30 years of age, and with the couple's non-committal on (i.e., not outright rejection of) the possibility of adopting a hard to place child. The findings were discussed critically and it was concluded that the study demonstrated the feasibility of establishing objective empirical criteria for the selection of adoption applicants.

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Effect of Anonymity on Response of Adoptive Parents to a Child-problems Questionnaire

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Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents

Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents

Adjustment of Adopted Children and Prognosis from Maternal and Natal Risk Factors

Adjustment of Adopted Children and Demographic Profile of Adoptive Parents

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