Contact in adoption and adoptive identity formation: the mediating role of family conversation.
Contact in adoption and adoptive identity formation: the mediating role of family conversation.
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收养和收养身份形成中的接触:家庭对话的中介作用。
DOI:
10.1037/a0023388
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2011
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Grotevant,HaroldD
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VonKorff,Lynn;Grotevant,HaroldD
The present study examined adoption-related family conversation as a mediator of the association between adoptive parents' facilitation of contact with birth relatives and adolescent adoptive identity formation. The sample consisted of 184 adoptive families. Data were collected in two waves from adoptive mothers and fathers, and adoptees (M= 15.68 years at adolescence; M= 24.95 years at emerging adulthood) using semistructured interviews and questionnaires. Structural equation models showed a good fit to sample data, and analyses supported the hypothesized mediation model. Contact with birth relatives is associated with more frequent adoption-related family conversation, which in turn is associated with the development of adoptive identity. These results highlight the importance of supporting activities such as contact that lead to adoption-related family conversation.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)