Adoptive parent linguistics: Links to adoptees' relationships with their birth mother

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI:10.1111/cfs.13153

Anna W. Wright, Albert Y. H. Lo, Hollee McGinnis, Carine Leslie, Harold D. Grotevant

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Abstract

Objective

The study addressed whether specific linguistic variables used by adoptive parents were associated with ratings of the adoptee's relationship with their birth mothers.

Background

Parents transmit their beliefs and values to children through verbal and nonverbal communication. The ways in which adoptive parents discuss their child's adoption and birth family can influence the child's adoptive identity development and satisfaction with their adoption arrangements.

Method

Participants included mothers, fathers, and adolescents (M age = 15.7 years) in 177 adoptive families of children who were adopted domestically as infants by same-race parents. The Linguistic Analysis and Word Count 2015 (LIWC2015) program was used to code adoptive parents' interviews regarding their thoughts and feelings about adoption and their child's birth family. Adolescents' views of birth mothers were coded from their interviews.

Results

There were significant differences in linguistic patterns when adoptive parents discussed adoption generally compared to when they discussed their child's birth family. Specific linguistic variables used by adoptive mothers and fathers were significantly associated with adopted adolescents' perceptions and feelings towards their birth mothers.

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收养父母的语言学：被收养者与生母关系的联系

该研究探讨了养父母使用的特定语言变量是否与被收养人对其与生母关系的评价有关。养父母通过语言和非语言交流将其信仰和价值观传递给子女。领养父母讨论孩子的领养和出生家庭的方式会影响孩子的领养身份发展和对领养安排的满意度。参与者包括同种族父母在国内领养的177个领养家庭中的母亲、父亲和青少年（平均年龄=15.7岁）。我们使用语言分析和字数统计 2015（LIWC2015）程序对领养父母的访谈进行编码，以了解他们对领养及其孩子出生家庭的想法和感受。领养父母在讨论领养问题时使用的语言模式与讨论孩子的出生家庭时使用的语言模式存在显著差异。养父母和养父使用的特定语言变量与被收养青少年对生母的看法和情感有显著关联。

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Child & Family Social Work Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Child and Family Social Work provides a forum where researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and managers in the field of child and family social work exchange knowledge, increase understanding and develop notions of good practice. In its promotion of research and practice, which is both disciplined and articulate, the Journal is dedicated to advancing the wellbeing and welfare of children and their families throughout the world. Child and Family Social Work publishes original and distinguished contributions on matters of research, theory, policy and practice in the field of social work with children and their families. The Journal gives international definition to the discipline and practice of child and family social work.