OPENNESS IN ADOPTIVE FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

收养家庭关系的开放性

基本信息

批准号：
3329875
负责人：
Harold D Grotevant
金额：
$ 11.25万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
1991
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1991-01-14 至 1993-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3329875
关键词：
adolescence (12-20) age at pregnancy child foster care /adoption choice communication behavior computer program /software data collection family structure /dynamics informatics interview marriage /marital status maternal behavior middle childhood (6-11) mother child interaction perception questionnaires self concept

项目摘要

The purpose of this study, therefore, is to test hypotheses concerning the consequence of variations in "openness" in adoption (communication and contact among adoption triad members) for birthmothers who placed infants for adoption, for adoptive families and their adopted children, and for the development of relationships among adoption triad members. Data from a new sample of 40 birthmothers and their corresponding adoptive families (identified through Catholic Social Services of Green Bay) will be added to an existing data set that includes over 100 families. Adoptive families and birthmothers will be visited once in their respective homes; birthmothers will be given the option of being interviewed by telephone. Measures include several questionnaires, in-depth interviews with each person, and a joint interview with the adoptive parents. Five studies are proposed that address competence and successful adaptation in adoptive family relationships. Two of them replicate and extend the PI's work in progress concerning degree of openness and outcomes for adopted children and adoptive parents. Studies 3-5 pose new questions concerning the consequences associated with active choice in degree of openness, the negotiation of changes in degree of openness over time, and links between the adoptive couple's marital relationship and the family's relationship with their child's birthmother.

因此，这项研究的目的是检验有关采用“开放性”变化的结果（交流和收养三合会之间的接触）为生育婴儿的出生母亲为了收养，用于收养家庭及其收养子女，以及收养三合会成员之间的关系发展。来自新的数据样本的40位出生母亲及其相应的收养家庭（通过绿湾天主教社会服务确定）将添加到现有的数据集，其中包括100多个家庭。收养家庭一旦出生母亲将在各自的家中拜访；出生母亲将被选择接受电话采访。措施包括几个问卷人，以及对养父母的联合采访。提出了五项研究，以解决能力和成功适应在收养家庭关系中。其中两个复制并扩展 Pi的开放程度和成果正在进行的工作收养的孩子和养父母。研究3-5提出新问题关于与主动选择相关的后果开放性，随着时间的推移的开放程度变化的谈判，以及收养夫妇的婚姻关系与家庭的联系与孩子的出生母亲的关系。