Adoptive Parenting Cognitions: Acknowledgement of Differences as a Predictor of Adolescents' Attachment to Parents.

IF 2.3 4区心理学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Parenting-Science and Practice Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-02-10 DOI:10.1080/15295192.2019.1694826

Albert Y H Lo, Harold D Grotevant

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Abstract

Objective: Adoptive parents' acknowledgement of differences is defined as the propensity to think that adoptive and nonadoptive families are different in important ways. Few studies have examined the implications of such cognitions for the parent-child bond.

Design: Structural equation modeling was utilized to examine the relation between adoptive parents' acknowledgement of differences and adolescents' later attachment to their parents in a sample of within-race domestic infant adoptions. Data from 189 adoptive families were drawn from two waves (middle childhood, adolescence) of the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project, a longitudinal study of openness in adoption.

Results: Levels of acknowledgement of differences displayed by the adoptive mother and adoptive father during middle childhood positively predicted adopted adolescents' feelings of attachment towards the respective parent 8 years later. This relation depended on adopted adolescents' attitude toward adoption-related communication during middle childhood as well as the adoptive family's level of openness during middle childhood.

Conclusions: Acknowledgement of differences in adoptive families has positive implications for the parent-child bond.

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收养父母认知:承认差异是青少年对父母依恋的预测因子。

目的:养父母对差异的承认被定义为认为收养家庭和非收养家庭在重要方面不同的倾向。很少有研究考察这种认知对亲子关系的影响。设计:采用结构方程模型，以种族内家庭婴儿收养为样本，研究收养父母对差异的认知与青少年对父母的依恋之间的关系。来自189个收养家庭的数据来自明尼苏达州/德克萨斯州收养研究项目的两波(童年中期和青春期)，这是一项关于收养开放性的纵向研究。结果:养母和养父在儿童中期表现出的差异认知水平正预测了8年后被收养青少年对各自父母的依恋感受。这种关系取决于被收养青少年童年中期对收养相关沟通的态度以及收养家庭童年中期的开放程度。结论:承认收养家庭的差异对亲子关系有积极的影响。

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期刊介绍： Parenting: Science and Practice strives to promote the exchange of empirical findings, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches from all disciplines that help to define and advance theory, research, and practice in parenting, caregiving, and childrearing broadly construed. "Parenting" is interpreted to include biological parents and grandparents, adoptive parents, nonparental caregivers, and others, including infrahuman parents. Articles on parenting itself, antecedents of parenting, parenting effects on parents and on children, the multiple contexts of parenting, and parenting interventions and education are all welcome. The journal brings parenting to science and science to parenting.