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Continuity of Parental Behavioural Ratings of Children Adopted from China and Parenting Competence, Confidence and Enjoyment

Published:2010-12 Issue:4 Volume:34 Page:3-16
ISSN:0308-5759
Container-title:Adoption & Fostering
language:en
Short-container-title:Adoption & Fostering

Author:

Bruder Mary Beth¹,Dunst Carl J²,Mogro-Wilson Cristina³⁴,Tan Tony Xing⁵

Affiliation:

1. University of Connecticut AJ Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

2. Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute, Asheville, NC, USA

3. School of Social Work, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

4. AJ Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

5. Department of Psychological and Social Foundations, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA

Abstract

Mary Beth Bruder, Carl J Dunst, Cristina Mogro-Wilson and Tony Xing Tan used an analytic procedure called structural equation modelling (SEM) to evaluate the effects of adoption and post-adoption child behaviour measures on parents' self-judgements of their parenting competence, confidence and enjoyment. SEM is a statistical procedure for investigating complex relationships among multiple variables simultaneously. The study participants were 314 adults (mostly mothers) who had adopted a child from China. Parents' recall of their children's behaviour at the time of adoption was related to two outcomes: concerns about their children's development and post-adoption behavioural ratings of child functioning. The more positive the parents' ratings of their children's behaviour, the more positive they judged their parenting competence, confidence and enjoyment. Findings supported the main hypothesis that parents' judgements of their children's behaviour at and following adoption are both directly and indirectly related to their sense of parenting.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Sociology and Political Science,Social Psychology,Health (social science)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/030857591003400402

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