In order to investigate the impact of resilience on measures of mental health, the participants were divided into four groups; non-adopted/high resilience (n ¼ 4631, 48.9% of the non-adopted adolescents), non-adopted/low resilience
(n ¼ 4834), adopted/high resilience (n ¼ 23, 54.8% of the adoptees) and adopted/low resilience (n ¼ 19). For adopted and nonadopted
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 groups