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JOURNAL OF FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 529-540Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0012817
Keywords
openness; adoption; adjustment; birth parent; adoptive parent
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R56 HD042608, R01 HD042608-06A1, R01 HD042608] Funding Source: Medline
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Using 323 matched parties of birth mothers and adoptive parents, this study examined the association between the degree of adoption openness (e.g., contact and knowledge between parties) and birth and adoptive parents' postadoption adjustment shortly after the adoption placement (6 to 9 months). Data from birth fathers (N = 112), an understudied sample, were also explored. Openness was assessed by multiple informants. Results indicated that openness was significantly related to satisfaction with adoption process among adoptive parents and birth mothers. Increased openness was positively associated with birth mothers' postplacement adjustment, as indexed by birth mothers' self-reports and the interviewers' impression of birth mothers' adjustment. Birth fathers' report of openness was associated with their greater satisfaction with the adoption process and better postadoption adjustment.
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