AIDS epidemic and the psychological well-being and school participation of Ethiopian orphans.

摘要: This paper modeled the proximate determinants of scores on 60 items from Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI) and school participation approximately 1000 children who had lost their mothers due to AIDS an other causes using data a survey in Ethiopia. The MMPI reflecting emotional social adjustment before after maternal deaths were multi-disciplinary framework incorporating time sequence events. main findings that while orphans scored lower variables such as presence father household income feeding clothing conditions attitude fostering family significant predictors childrens scores. Secondly girls at disadvantage% terms items. Third good participation. Fourth death was important predictor subsequent probabilities. An ordinal regression model estimated address certain methodological problems. Overall results indicated economic subsidies households would enhance child welfare (authors)