Skinner-Drawz Brooke A, Wrobel Gretchen Miller, Grotevant Harold D, Von Korff Lynn
Health and Wellness Center, Macalester College.
J Fam Commun. 2011 Jul 1;11(3):181-197. doi: 10.1080/15267431003656587.
Adoption Communicative Openness was examined as a predictor of information seeking from adolescence to emerging adulthood in a group of adoptees who did not have direct contact with birth relatives during adolescence. Changes in information seeking intentions and behaviors between adolescence and emerging adulthood were also examined. Data from 119 infant-placed adoptees and their adoptive mothers were used from Waves 2 (1996-2000) and 3 (2005-2008) of the Minnesota-Texas Adoption Research Project (Grotevant & McRoy, 1998). Adoptive mothers' Communicative Openness was positively associated with degree of information seeking in emerging adulthood. Degree of information seeking between adolescence (Wave 2) and emerging adulthood (Wave 3) increased for the majority of adoptees (62.2%). Approximately 16% of adoptees experienced no change in information seeking and 22% of adoptees experienced a decrease in information seeking. Females were more likely to exhibit a greater increase in information seeking change between Waves 2 and 3 and information seeking at Wave 3 than males. Results suggest that adoptee information seeking is a dynamic process that takes place over several life stages and that open communication about adoption within the adoptive family supports adoptee information seeking.
在一组青春期未与亲生亲属直接接触的被收养者中，研究了收养沟通开放性作为从青春期到成年早期信息寻求预测因素的情况。还研究了青春期和成年早期之间信息寻求意图和行为的变化。使用了明尼苏达 - 德克萨斯收养研究项目（Grotevant & McRoy，1998）第2波（1996 - 2000年）和第3波（2005 - 2008年）中119名婴儿期安置的被收养者及其养母的数据。养母的沟通开放性与成年早期的信息寻求程度呈正相关。大多数被收养者（62.2%）从青春期（第2波）到成年早期（第3波）的信息寻求程度有所增加。约16%的被收养者信息寻求没有变化，22%的被收养者信息寻求减少。与男性相比，女性在第2波和第3波之间信息寻求变化以及第3波信息寻求方面更有可能表现出更大的增加。结果表明，被收养者的信息寻求是一个在多个生命阶段发生的动态过程，收养家庭内部关于收养的开放沟通支持被收养者的信息寻求。
