Single Adoptive Parents and Their Adoptee Adolescents: Building Parenting Competencies and Secure Attachments

IF 0.9 Q3 SOCIAL WORK

Adoption Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI:10.1080/10926755.2022.2155895

S. Pandya

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Abstract Single adoptive parents and their adoptees who transition into adolescence are likely to face several challenges. This article reports the impact of a WhatsApp-based spiritual education lessons (SEL) intervention on bolstering parenting competencies and secure attachments of single adoptive parents-adoptee adolescent dyads (Npre-test = 86; Npost-test = 76). An active control group based experimental design was used with WhatsApp-based general posts as the control condition. Parenting competencies were assessed pre- and post-test by the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC) and Me as a Parent Scale (MaaP) and adolescent attachment outcomes were assessed by the Friends and Family Interview (FFI). Results supported the intervention and the SEL posts had greater impact on mother-daughter dyads, middle class, ever-single adoptive parents, highly qualified, professionals-salaried, and whose intervention compliance was higher. Actor-partner interdependence models indicated that single adoptive parents’ and adoptee adolescents’ outcomes were mutually associated. Latent class analysis suggested an eight-latent-class model of participant clusters likely to gain more from the SEL intervention, which included: adoptee female adolescents-ever-single adoptive female parents, adoptee male adolescents-ever-single adoptive female parents, middle class, highly qualified, professional-salaried, and who complied with the intervention by reading posts and completing homework above the recommended threshold.

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单亲养父母及其被收养青少年：建立育儿能力和安全依恋

摘要单亲养父母及其被养人进入青春期可能会面临一些挑战。本文报告了基于whatsapp的精神教育课程(SEL)干预对提高单亲养父母-被养父母青少年父子养育能力和安全依恋的影响(n - pre-test = 86;Npost-test = 76)。采用基于主动对照组的实验设计，以基于whatsapp的一般帖子为对照条件。采用父母能力感量表(PSOC)和我作为父母量表(MaaP)评估父母能力测试前和测试后，采用朋友和家人访谈(FFI)评估青少年依恋结果。研究结果支持干预的有效性，SEL职位对母女二人组、中产阶级、一直单身的养父母、高素质的专业人员、高收入的专业人员的干预依从性有较大的影响。行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型表明，单亲养父母和被收养青少年的结果是相互关联的。潜在类别分析表明，参与者集群可能从SEL干预中获得更多的八个潜在类别模型，其中包括:被收养的女性青少年-曾经单身的养父母，被收养的男性青少年-曾经单身的养父母，中产阶级，高素质，专业工资，以及通过阅读帖子和完成超过推荐阈值的作业来遵守干预的人。

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Adoption Quarterly SOCIAL WORK-

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1.60

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Adoption Quarterly is an unparalleled forum for examining the issues of child care, of adoption as viewed from a lifespan perspective, and of the psychological and social meanings of the word "family." This international, multidisciplinary journal features conceptual and empirical work, commentaries, and book reviews from the fields of the social sciences, humanities, biological sciences, law, and social policy. In addition to examining ethical, biological, financial, social and psychological adoption issues, Adoption Quarterly addresses continuity in adoption issues that are important to both practitioners and researchers, such as: negotiation of birth and adoptive family contact.