Abstract
Psychosocial development of foster children was compared to that of home-reared children in two studies. The first explored differences between 29 foster children and children home-reared in both poverty (93) and nonpoverty (47) on a 12-item projective test (the Tasks of Emotional Development test) using discriminant function analysis. A function unique among faster children was found and interpreted as reliance upon and exploitation of externally determined events. The second study investigated whether subjective peer social deficits identified with the projective test are paraleled by objective peer social deficits relative to home-reared classmates. On the basis of peer sociometric data generated by classmates, 17 foster children were found to be more often disliked and rejected than home-reared peers. Externality and peer social deprivation as here-to-fore unrecognized risks for foster children were discussed.
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