In order to investigate the impact of resilience on measures of mental health, the participants were divided into four groups.1.non-adopted/high resilience 2.non-adopted/low resilience 3.adopted/high resilience 4.adopted/low resilience.For adopted and non-adopted participants, the scores on symptoms of depression,ADHD and OCD (see Fig. 2) were lower for those with high resilience than for those with low resilience.The relationship between resilience and mental health scores did not differ between adopted and non-adopted group