"They don't know what it's like to be in my shoes": Topic avoidance about race in transracially adoptive families
"They don't know what it's like to be in my shoes": Topic avoidance about race in transracially adoptive families
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DOI：
10.1177/0265407510382177
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Docan-Morgan, Sara
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作者：
Docan-Morgan, Sara
通过跨种族收养形成的家庭面临着单一种族家庭所没有的沟通挑战。利用通信隐私管理理论和话题回避的研究，本文探讨了韩国成年被收养人的报告，种族贬损在他们的青年和程度，他们避免讨论这些互动与他们的白色养父母。定性访谈和调查的结果表明，被收养的参与者报告说收到了一系列种族贬损的信息，包括外观攻击，种族攻击和身体攻击。大多数参与者报告说，由于父母反应迟钝和/或自我保护，他们避免与养父母讨论这些事件。本研究扩展了主题回避的工作，提供子主题的父母反应迟钝，揭示了跨种族收养家庭的隐私管理。
Families formed through transracial adoption face communicative challenges not faced by single-race families. Drawing upon communication privacy management theory and research on topic avoidance, this paper explores Korean adult adoptees' reports of racial derogation in their youth and the extent to which they avoided discussing these interactions with their White adoptive parents. Results from qualitative interviews and surveys suggest that adoptee participants reported having received a range of racially derogatory messages, including appearance attacks, ethnicity attacks, and physical attacks. Most participants reported avoiding discussing these occurrences with their adoptive parents due to parent unresponsiveness and/or self-protection. This study extends the work on topic avoidance by offering sub-themes for parent unresponsiveness and sheds light on privacy management in transracially adoptive families.