Research That Has Explored the Personality of Adopted Children and Their

question 77

Multiple Choice

Research that has explored the personality of adopted children and their parents has shown

• A) almost no correlation between adoptive parents and their adopted children.
• B) correlations that are nearly equal for adoptive parents and the birth parents.
• C) correlations that are much stronger for adoptive parents than for birth parents.
• D) strong correlations only when the parents have an authoritarian parenting style.

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