Wrobel Gretchen Miller, Grotevant Harold D, Samek Diana R, Von Korff Lynn
Bethel University.
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Int J Behav Dev. 2013 Sep 1;37(5). doi: 10.1177/0165025413486420.
The Adoption Communication Pathway(ACP) model was used to test the potential mediating effect of curiosity on adoption information seeking in a sample of 143 emerging adult adoptees (mean age = 25.0 years) who were adopted as infants within the United States by parents of the same race. Adoptees were interviewed about their intentions and actions taken to gather new information about their birth mothers and fathers. As expected, level of curiosity was positively associated with information seeking behavior. Moreover, level of curiosity was influenced by adoptees' perceptions of barriers and facilitators toward information-dseeking. In fact, curiosity partially mediated the impact of internal and external barriers on information seeking about birth mothers. Curiosity fully mediated the impact of external barriers and partially mediated external facilitators on birth father information seeking. This study provides important support for the ACP, which describes context, motivation, and behavior relating to seeking new adoption-related information.
采用收养沟通途径（ACP）模型，对143名在美国由同种族父母在婴儿期收养的新兴成年被收养者（平均年龄 = 25.0岁）样本中好奇心对收养信息寻求的潜在中介作用进行了测试。研究人员就被收养者为收集有关其生身父母的新信息所采取的意图和行动进行了访谈。不出所料，好奇心水平与信息寻求行为呈正相关。此外，好奇心水平受被收养者对信息寻求的障碍和促进因素的认知影响。事实上，好奇心部分中介了内部和外部障碍对寻找生母信息的影响。好奇心完全中介了外部障碍的影响，并部分中介了外部促进因素对寻找生父信息的影响。本研究为收养沟通途径（ACP）提供了重要支持，该途径描述了与寻求新的收养相关信息有关的背景、动机和行为。
