Adoptive Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Distress: Parenting Teens Adopted from Birth

Sellers, Christina M.; Battalen, Adeline Wyman; Fiorenzo, Lisa; McRoy, Ruth G.; Grotevant, Hal

doi:10.1080/10926755.2018.1508530

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“…For Research Question 1c (where higher scores on family stressors mean lower stress), a negative association was hypothesized for actor effects and partner effects: Both parents’ ratings of family stressors and their spouses’ ratings of family stressors were expected to predict their own and their partners’ ratings of incompatibility. These hypotheses align with family and ecological systems theories and previous findings that family context is positively associated with parent–child compatibility (Bronfenbrenner, 1977; Fiese et al, 2019; Sellers et al, 2019). Research Question 2 (RQ2) asks how mothers’ and fathers’ ratings of family dysfunction, family stressors, parent–adolescent incompatibility, and parents’ psychological distress are associated with their adopted adolescents’ concurrent psychological adjustment.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Adoption also involves factors beyond the adopted individual; previous research has identified that family dynamics within adoptive families are essential to understanding adoption (Grotevant, 1997) and have strong associations with adopted individuals’ adjustment (Sellers et al, 2019). However, there has been a lack of attention to the dyadic influences of adoptive parents and family systems influences.…”

Section: Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As an expansion of Sellers et al’s (2019) work, this study will include an examination of adopted individuals’ gender within the question of their own adjustment and family context. Acknowledged as a complex combination of biomedical, psychosocial, and epidemiological influences (Afifi, 2007), gender is a strong predictor of adjustment, with girls generally showing higher rates than boys of depression, eating disorders, and suicide attempts during adolescence (e.g., Hawton et al, 2002; Parker & Roy, 2001).…”

Section: Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adoptive family contexts of adolescent and adult adjustment: Dyadic and systemic approaches.

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Wang

2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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Adoptive family contexts of adolescent and adult adjustment: Dyadic and systemic approaches.

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Grotevant,

Wang

2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…However, in addition to the challenges usually associated with the different stages of a child’s growth and the life cycle of an adoptive family, there are several emerging parenting challenges that may be confusing, stressful, and exhausting [ 8 , 43 ], requiring different psychological resources from parents to maintain their well-being in different phases of the family life cycle. Finally, parenting stress research has also been primarily focused on mothers, with fewer studies (e.g., [ 11 , 44 , 45 ]) fully considering the role of fathers. In fact, there are various individual, biological, and cultural gender differences that can influence how fathers and mothers address the challenges that emerge from parenthood [ 46 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Explaining Parenting Stress among Adoptive Parents: The Contribution of Mindfulness, Psychological Flexibility, and Self-Compassion

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Canavarro

Pires

2022

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Although parenting stress has been identified as one of the most important and highly acceptable targets for postadoption psychological intervention, knowledge regarding the modifiable factors that contribute to explaining this outcome among adoptive parents remains scarce. This study aimed to explore whether and to what extent adoptive parents’ mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and self-compassion contribute to explaining parenting stress and to analyze whether this contribution varies according to children’s age, time passed since the adoptive placement, and the parents’ gender. Cross-sectional data from 302 Portuguese adoptive parents with children between 1 and 17 years old were collected online through self-response questionnaires. Controlling for a wide range of child-, adoption-, and parent-related variables, lower levels of mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and self-compassion were associated with higher levels of parenting stress. These associations were not moderated by children’s age, time passed since the adoptive placement, or the parents’ gender. The final regression model explained 50% of the variance in parenting stress. These results allow us to reflect on new guidelines for both preventive and remedial interventions with adoptive parents, given the apparent added value of promoting these psychological resources.

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“…Ressalta-se, assim, a necessidade de investigações sobre o período pré-adoção, na medida em que a maioria dos estudos a situam enquanto um processo estático. No entanto, trata-se de um processo contínuo, especialmente se considerado o caráter dinâmico das relações familiares (Sellers, Battalen, Fiorenzo, McRoy, & Grotevant, 2019).…”

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A Criança Imaginária no Contexto de Espera pela Adoção

Schwochow

Almeida

Frizzo

2020

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O período anterior à chegada da criança na família adotiva é permeado por expectativas, incluindo o imaginário sobre a criança. O presente estudo investigou as representações maternas sobre a criança imaginária no contexto de espera pela adoção. Trata-se de um estudo de casos múltiplos em que participaram quatro mulheres que esperavam na fila de adoção. Os dados foram analisados através da Análise Temática e organizados a partir de três temas definidos previamente: (a) imaginário sobre características físicas; (b) imaginário sobre as características emocionais; e (c) imaginário sobre a relação mãe-criança. Observou-se que no primeiro tema surgiram questões raciais, enquanto no segundo tópico as participantes falaram sobre a representação de uma criança sofrida e/ou idealizada, sendo essa última baseada na apresentação de um comportamento calmo. Na relação com a criança, as participantes abordaram a necessidade de adaptação frente ao tornar-se mãe por adoção, apesar disso, suas perspectivas apontavam para interações positivas. Reconhecer a espera pela adoção como parte da transição para parentalidade faz-se primordial para saúde emocional dessas famílias. Este estudo contribui empiricamente para uma maior compreensão sobre as representações maternas da criança imaginária no contexto da filiação adotiva.

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Adoptive Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Distress: Parenting Teens Adopted from Birth

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Adoptive family contexts of adolescent and adult adjustment: Dyadic and systemic approaches.

Adoptive family contexts of adolescent and adult adjustment: Dyadic and systemic approaches.

Explaining Parenting Stress among Adoptive Parents: The Contribution of Mindfulness, Psychological Flexibility, and Self-Compassion

A Criança Imaginária no Contexto de Espera pela Adoção

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