Adoptive Families: Outcomes for Young Adults

收养家庭：年轻人的结果

基本信息

批准号：
7209725
负责人：
Harold D Grotevant
金额：
$ 21.88万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2005-04-11 至 2009-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this application, funding is requested for a third wave of data in the Minnesota / Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP), a longitudinal study of variations in openness in adoption, which refers to a continuum of contact and communication among members of adoptive kinship networks. The continuum ranges from confidential (no contact and no identifying information shared) to mediated (communication occurs indirectly through a third party such as an adoption agency) to fully disclosed (communication and contact occur directly between parties). The proposed research links the child's experiences in adoptive kinship networks varying in complexity with key psychosocial outcomes in young adulthood: emerging independence, close relationships, and psychological adjustment. Although much is known about traditional family environments that lead to healthy outcomes for adolescents and young adults, we lack adequate scientific understanding of the basic processes in such complex families and how they are connected to psychological and social outcomes. The proposed work follows the study's participants across the transition into young adulthood (age 20-28) and has 3 interconnected research aims. The first links family relationships during childhood and adolescence with the development of close relationships in young adulthood. The second links identify pathways with young adult outcomes. The third aim connects the first 2, linking adoptive kinship network processes, family relationships, and identify pathways with young adult outcomes. 190 young adult adoptees (ages 20 - 28) who had participated during middle childhood and adolescence will be personally interviewed and complete a set of survey measures online. Their adoptive parents will also complete instruments regarding their young adult children. The research will produce a significant gain for the scientific literature on family process and child outcomes in these complex family systems and will contribute empirical research findings to the national debate about "the best interests of the child" in cases of adoption.

描述（由申请人提供）：在本申请中，要求资金在明尼苏达州 /德克萨斯州收养研究项目（MTARP）中进行第三波数据，这是一项对采用开放性变化的纵向研究，这是指收养亲属网络成员之间的联系和沟通的连续性。连续体的范围从机密（没有联系和没有共享的识别信息）到中介（通过第三方（例如收养机构）间接发生沟通）到完全披露（当事方之间直接发生沟通和联系）。拟议的研究将孩子在收养亲属网络中的经历与年轻成年的关键社会心理结局不同：新兴的独立性，亲密关系和心理调整而异。尽管对传统的家庭环境有很多了解，这为青少年和年轻人带来了健康的成果，但我们对这种复杂家庭的基本过程以及它们如何与心理和社会成果联系在一起缺乏足够的科学理解。拟议的工作遵循该研究的参与者在整个成年期（20-28岁）的过渡过程中，并具有3个相互联系的研究目的。第一个将童年和青春期的家庭关系与成年后的亲密关系的发展联系起来。第二个链接确定了与年轻成人结局的途径。第三个目标连接了前两个，将收养亲属网络流程，家庭关系联系起来，并与年轻成人成果确定途径。 190年在童年和青春期参加的年轻成人收养者（20-28岁）将亲自采访并在线访问一系列调查措施。他们的养父母还将完成有关年轻子女的工具。这项研究将为这些复杂的家庭系统中的家庭过程和儿童成果的科学文献带来重大收益，并将在收养的情况下为“儿童的最大利益”的国家辩论做出经验研究结果。