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| العنوان: |
A Retrospective Study on Adoptive Parenthood in the First Year after the Adoption: The Role of Parents' Attachment and Empathy on Communicative Openness. |
| المؤلفون: |
Gorla, Laura, Fusco, Chiara, Santona, Alessandra |
| المصدر: |
Healthcare (2227-9032); Dec2023, Vol. 11 Issue 24, p3128, 14p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
STATISTICS, EMPATHY, ADOPTIVE parents, RETROSPECTIVE studies, PARENTHOOD, ATTACHMENT behavior, PARENTING, COMMUNICATION, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, QUESTIONNAIRES, PARENT-child relationships, DATA analysis, FAMILY relations, AVOIDANT personality disorder, PSYCHOLOGICAL distress |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
ITALY |
| مستخلص: |
Communicative openness (CO) defines the willingness of parents and children to explore the significance of adoption. Especially in the first year of adoption, CO could be challenging for adoptive parents, who are influenced by personal characteristics. Using a retrospective assessment, we investigated parents' communicative experiences in the first year of adoption and whether these are affected by romantic attachment and empathy. In the study, 290 adoptive parents (females = 73%, mean age 50 years) filled (a) an ad hoc questionnaire for CO, (b) Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) for attachment, and the (c) Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) for empathy. During the first year, most parents reported difficulties in controlling their emotions and understanding their children's emotions. Parents with an avoidant attachment and personal distress in empathy were more likely to feel fatigued in sharing and controlling personal feelings and understanding their children's feelings. Open adoption-related communication is a complex and challenging process for adoptive parents, which can be facilitated or not by individual characteristics such as avoidant attachment and personal distress in emotional situations. These results could help develop psychological interventions targeting adoptive parents during the first year after the child enters the family system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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