Families with Internationally Adopted Children in Finland: A Study of Emotional Availability in the Early Interaction.

IF 2.3 3区 医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY
Katarina L Kuusela, Hanna Raaska, Marko J Elovainio, Anna-Riitta Heikkilä, Christian A Hakulinen, Marjo S Flykt, Helena Lapinleimu
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A well-functioning parent-child relationship is crucial for the child's psychological development. We examined the Emotional Availability (EA) in the early interaction of internationally adopted children with their mothers. We also studied whether the quality of the interaction was associated with the sex of the adopted children, the age at the time of adoption, the time they had spent in the family and parental depressive symptoms. The study sample was part of the Finnish Adoption (FinAdo) study and included 79 children (mean age at adoption = 2.58 years, SD = 1.51 months, 37% girls) and their adoptive mothers in Finland. The mother-child interactions were examined with Emotional Availability Scales (EAS) during the first months after adoption (mean = 6.3 months). Our results showed that the overall EA scores were relatively high (mean 4.78-6.18), although the mean levels of parent sensitivity, parent non-intrusiveness, child responsiveness and child involvement were under the high zone of the EA (< 5.5). Children adopted at a younger age and boys received lower scores in the interaction analysis. Our results suggest that families with internationally adopted children seem to be able to create a well-functioning early relationship between the mother and the child.

芬兰收养国际儿童的家庭:早期互动中情感可用性的研究。
良好的亲子关系对儿童的心理发展至关重要。我们研究了国际收养儿童与母亲早期互动中的情感可得性(EA)。我们还研究了互动的质量是否与被收养儿童的性别、被收养时的年龄、他们在家庭中度过的时间以及父母的抑郁症状有关。研究样本是芬兰收养(FinAdo)研究的一部分,包括芬兰的 79 名儿童(被收养时的平均年龄 = 2.58 岁,SD = 1.51 个月,37% 为女孩)及其收养母亲。在收养后的头几个月(平均 = 6.3 个月),我们使用情感可得性量表(EAS)对母子互动情况进行了调查。结果表明,虽然父母的敏感性、父母的非侵入性、儿童的反应性和儿童的参与性的平均水平低于情感可得性量表的高分区,但总体的情感可得性得分相对较高(平均值为 4.78-6.18)。
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0.50
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期刊介绍: Child Psychiatry & Human Development is an interdisciplinary international journal serving the groups represented by child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical child/pediatric/family psychology, pediatrics, social science, and human development. The journal publishes research on diagnosis, assessment, treatment, epidemiology, development, advocacy, training, cultural factors, ethics, policy, and professional issues as related to clinical disorders in children, adolescents, and families. The journal publishes peer-reviewed original empirical research in addition to substantive and theoretical reviews.
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