Table 1.

Characteristics for the Early-life stress (ELS) and comparison participants.

	ELS (n = 38; 24 children, 14 adolescents)	Comparison (n = 31; 15children, 16adolescents)
Sex	24 female; 14 male	12 female; 19 male
Mean age in years (SD); range	9.9 (2.6); 6-15	9.7 (3.1); 4-15
Mean (SD) IQ; range	101.1 (14.3); 72-126	111.2 (15.2); 76-143
Country of origin	29 Eastern Europe; 8 East Asia; 1 India
Mean (SD) age in years when placed in institutional care ; range	.65 (1); 0-4
Mean (SD) age in years when adopted; range	2 (2); 0.5-8
Mean (SD) time in years with adoptive family; range	8 (3); 3-14
Mean (SD) parent reported quality of institutional caregiving (1=very poor caregiving, 10=very good caregiving); range	6 (3); 1-10
Mean (SD) parent reported quantity of caregiving (1=too few caregivers, 10=many caregivers); range	5 (3); 1-10