Adolescent Search for Birthparents: Who Moves Forward?

Autor/inn/en	Wrobel, Gretchen Miller; Grotevant, Harold D.; McRoy, Ruth G.
Titel	Adolescent Search for Birthparents: Who Moves Forward?
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 19 (2004) 1, S.132-151 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558403258125
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Adoption; Parents; Family Relationship; Psychological Patterns; Behavior; Search Strategies; Information Seeking; Age Differences; Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Eltern; Suchstrategie; Informationserschließung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	The decision to search for birthparents is one that all adopted persons consider. The focus of this study is to describe, for a group of adopted adolescents, who chooses to search and who does not and to explore how search behavior is related to the functioning of the adolescents' adoptive families and adolescents' psychological adjustment. Participants in the study included 93 adolescents whose contact with birthparents ranged from no contact or information about birthparents to those who had some information but no direct contact with birthparents. Adolescents who indicated no desire to search for their birthparents and those who indicated a desire to search or had searched were included in the study. Older adolescents who experienced some openness in their adoption, were the least satisfied with that adoptive openness, and were preoccupied with their adoptive status were most likely to search. Search behavior was not related to family functioning or adolescent problem behavior. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10