Here again, the Asian adopted adolescents score highest among all the groups that share good results. Overwhelmingly, adopted adolescents score well in terms of their mental health. Seventy-five percent of Asian adopted adolescents score in the normal range. These scores, however, are not statistically significant on any of the four measures used by the researchers. In other words, most adopted adolescents in the study scored very well.
Asian adolescents score higher than transracial adopted adolescents as a group.
For Asian adolescents, the number is 22 percent. The findings of the Search Institute study of adopted adolescents should offer comfort to those who have adopted or are adopting transracially from Asia. Preliminary findings from one large, in-depth study in progress suggest that the positive findings will remain firm into adulthood.