Heredity and Environment in 300 Adoptive Families: The Texas Adoption Project

ISBN-13: 9781138510609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 218 str.

Joseph Horn

Opis

This book presents the results of a thirty-five-year research project involving 300 families, each of whom adopted at least one child at birth from a Texas home for unwed mothers during the period of 1962-1970

Spis treści

Preface
1. A Brief History and Overview of the Project
1. Why Carry Out (or Read about) an Adoption Study?
2. Previous Adoption Studies
3. The Texas Adoption Project Beginnings
4. Some Characteristics of the Sample
5. Studies in the Texas Adoption Project Chronological Sequence
6. Summary and Look Ahead
2. Intellectual Abilities in the Texas Adoption Project
1. About the Presentation of Results in this Book
2. Intelligence and Intelligence Tests
3. Evidence about Heredity and Environment from Comparisons of Means
4. Evidence about Heredity and Environment from Family Correlations
5. More Specialized Aspects of Intelligence
3. Personality in the Texas Adoption Project
1. Personality Measures Used in the TAP
2. The Rating Composites
3. The Cattell Scales
4. The CPI and the TTS in the Separate Mail Study
5. The MMPI
6. Personality Change
4. Achievement, Adjustment, Outcomes
1. Academic Achievement
2. Psychopathology and Problem Behavior
3. Occupation
4. Personal Relationships
5. Maturity and Happiness
6. Factors Related to Outcomes
5. Summary and Conclusions
1. The Story so Far
2. What We Learned in the TAP
3. Four Families
4. Some Limitations of Adoption Studies
5. Some Implications of the Texas Adoption Project
6. Final Comments
Appendices
A. Initial Letter to Families
B. Rating Scales
C. IQ Test Details
D. Details on Self-Ratings
E. Modeling of Selection
Glossary
References
Index

O autorze

Joseph Horn