scholarly journals Anonymous birth: Biographical knowledge and dyadic coping in adoptive mothers and fathers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Felnhofer ◽  
Jennifer Kernreiter ◽  
Claudia Klier ◽  
Mercedes M. Huscsava ◽  
Christian Fiala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Dyadic Coping ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Anonymous Birth ◽  
Adoptive Mothers ◽  
Biographical Knowledge

AbstractResearch on adoptive parents of anonymously born children is still scarce. Open issues are (1) examining how much biographical information is available to adoptive parents, (2) considering differences between adoptive mothers and fathers, and (3) understanding what affects their dyadic coping. Hence, this study set out to compare adoptive mothers’ and fathers’ mental health, attachment styles, dyadic coping, and biographical knowledge, and to identify predictors of dyadic coping. 62 mothers and 40 fathers (mean age: 46 years) raising an anonymously born adoptee answered online or paper-pencil versions of the Brief Symptom Inventory, Vulnerable Attachment Style Questionnaire, Dyadic Coping Inventory, Child Behavior Checklist, and a checklist of biographical data. Descriptive analyses showed that biographical knowledge was generally low in adoptive parents. More information was available on the birth mother than the birth father, with letters being the most common memorial. Furthermore, student t-tests revealed few differences: adoptive mothers reported to be more anxious and rated their ability to communicate stress and common dyadic coping as higher than did adoptive fathers. Finally, a hierarchical linear regression identified knowledge of more biographical data, parents’ older age as well as child’s younger age and higher psychopathology scores as predictors of better adoptive parents’ dyadic coping. These findings highlight the difficult task of gathering biographical information whilst maintaining the birth mother’s anonymity. They also stress the need of further research which may inform policies tailored to the specific needs of adoptive parents in the context of anonymous birth.

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

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Christina M. Sellers ◽  
Adeline Wyman Battalen ◽  
Lisa Fiorenzo ◽  
Ruth McRoy ◽  
Hal Grotevant
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Adoptive Mothers

Parenting style as a moderator of effects of political violence

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Slone ◽  
Tomer Shechner ◽  
Oula Khoury Farah
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Violence Exposure ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Parents And Children

This study examined cross-cultural differences in the moderating function of authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive parenting styles for Jewish and Arab Israeli children exposed to political violence. Respondents were parents and children aged 10–11 from 94 families (42 Arab, 52 Jewish). Parents completed the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire and a demographic questionnaire, and children completed the Brief Symptom Inventory, Political Life Events Scale, and Negative Life Events Scale. Political violence exposure and parenting style influenced children’s psychological distress. Mothers’ and fathers’ parenting style moderated effects of political-violence exposure differently for Jewish and Arab children. These findings highlight the need to examine both mothers’ and fathers’ parenting style and ways in which parenting style effects are culturally dependent.

scholarly journals Materials on M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Descendants from S.A. Makashin’s Archive

Literary Fact ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 237-264
Author(s):  
Evgenija N. Stroganova
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Shooting Range ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Unpublished Work ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Long Life ◽  
First Time

The publication introduces materials on M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s descendants from S.A. Makashin’s archive. By now there has been available basic biographical information about Konstantin Mikhailovich, the writer’s son and the author of the famous memoir Intimate Shchedrin (1923) negatively assessed by Soviet literary critics. Even less information survived on the writer’s daughter Elizaveta Mikhailovna, Baroness Disterlaut in her first marriage, Countess Da Passano in her second marriage. She hadn’t left memoirs about her father and therefore hasn’t become an object of interest for scholars. Materials from Makashin’s archive specify some biographical data and stir up an interest in the personality of the writer’s daughter. However it is the materials about her children, Tamara Nikolaevna Disterlaut (Gladyrevskaia in her second marriage), and Andrei Evgenievich Da Passano, that are of special interest. A part of the unpublished work by E. Gard, a journalist, appears in print for the first time: in 1934 he came to Kraskovo (Moscow region) and met the writer’s grand-daughter. Further information about T.N. Gladyrevskaia is given in the memoir written by her daughter Elena Aleksandrovna Gladyrevskaia and in the online materials about the victims of Stalinist repressions. Saltykov’s granddaughter was arrested in 1938; later her children were told that their mother had died in 1945; in fact, she was executed at Butovo Shooting Range soon after her arrest. The writer’s grandson left Russia together with his parents in 1917. His letter to G.V. Plekhanov’s daughter is published: he writes about his parents and himself. Information about A. Da Passano is specified thanks to the data available online (websites devoted to Italian comics creators and American esotery scientists). He lived a long life rich in the events, and died in the USA in 1933.

Models of Behaviour and the Behaviour of Models

1989 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Loehlin
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Absolute Difference ◽  
Birth Mothers ◽  
Adoption Study ◽  
Adoptive Mothers ◽  
The Absolute

A model proposed by Bateson suggests that the discrepancy between an adopted child's genotype for I.0. and the adoptive parents' I.Q. should contribute negatively to the child's intellectual development. In support, he cited evidence from an adoption study that the absolute difference between birth mothers' and adoptive mothers' I.Qs is negatively correlated with adopted child's I.Q. Further confirmation of the empirical relationship is reported; however, it is pointed out that such a correlation may artefactually result from a difference in parental means, and that the formal model presents other problems as well.

scholarly journals Social Profile of Gulag Prisoners - Authors of Memoirs

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Mikhailovna Goretskaia
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Resource ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Female Prisoners ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Characteristic Features

Political repressions affected representatives of all social strata and groups. This period left a bulk of documents, including memoirs, where the most intimate and difficult thoughts and recollections of their authors are reflected. One of valuable sets of memoirs of political repressions history is collected by the Sakharov Center website. The electronic resource "Memories of the Gulag and their authors" is valuable not only because it exhibits memoirs of more than one and a half thousand people who suffered from repressions but also because of the biographical information about the authors of these memoirs compiled on the basis of information from the memoirs. Biographical data on the victims of the Gulag system became the main source of this study. They allow us to describe and analyze the social portrait of Gulag victims who left memories. Biographical data became a source for creating the database "Gulag prisoners-authors of memoirs". The social portrait of the repressed and its characteristic features were described, as well as a comparison of the social portrait of male and female prisoners was made. Males and females were analyzed separately to pursue the goal set. The analysis suggests that there is a certain similarity of biographical characteristics among the authors of the memoirs which is probably due to the fact that the educated, intelligent segments of the population were one of the objects of a purposeful repressive policy followed in the Soviet state. .

scholarly journals Adaptation Study of Privacy Invasion Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
New Model ◽  
Reliable Scale ◽  
Privacy Invasion

Privacy is what one can be in his or her private space without being disturbed by others. Privacy invasion is the unauthorized intervention of other people in the private area of the person. The aim of the study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Turkish adaptation of Privacy Invasion Scale (PIS). A total of 1211 adolescents (621 (51.3%) girls and 590 boys (48.7%) between the ages of 12 and 18 years) participated (M = 14.93, SD = 2.01) in the study. The findings of factor analysis showed that in line with the suggested correction indices, the errors of item 5 and item 2, item 6 and item 4 were associated with each other and it was observed that the new model produced was very well adapted to the data χ2 (8, N = 1211) = 2.583, p > .05, χ2/df = .32, GFI = .99, AGFI = .99, NFI = .99, CFI = 1.00, RMSEA = .00. Internal consistency coefficients of the scale were found as .75 for mothers and .73 for fathers. In the study, depression scale which is subscale of Brief Symptom Inventory was used in order to evaluate the criterion-related validity of the PIS. It was found that the privacy invasion of both mothers and fathers perceived by adolescents was associated with depression. The findings showed that PIS is a valid and reliable scale that can be used to evaluate how adolescents perceive their parents behaviors. Keywords Privacy invasion, adolescence, validity, reliability

scholarly journals Interaction between adoptive mothers’ and fathers’ depressive symptoms in risk for children’s emerging problem behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Hails ◽  
Daniel S. Shaw ◽  
Leslie D. Leve ◽  
Jody M. Ganiban ◽  
David Reiss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Adoptive Mothers

Communication patterns between parents and children: Comparing mothers and fathers in different learner contexts

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 1223-1246 ◽  
Author(s):  
LARA PIERCE ◽  
FRED GENESEE ◽  
KARINE GAUTHIER ◽  
MARIE-EVE DUBOIS
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Learning Situation ◽  
Birth Parents ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Interaction Styles ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Internationally Adopted Children ◽  
Internationally Adopted

ABSTRACTLanguage use and joint attention (JA) strategies were examined during interactions between francophone mothers and fathers and either their birth children (n = 10) or their internationally adopted children from China (n = 8), once when the children were 15 months old and again at 20 months, on average. Results showed that mothers engaged in more JA episodes and tended to talk more with their children than did fathers; however, this was influenced by the language-learning situation of the child. Specifically, the adoptive parents engaged more with their children than did the birth parents, and the behaviors of the internationally adopted mothers and fathers were more similar to each other than to those of the birth parents, arguably to support their children's unique language-learning situation. However, in contrast to a previous study that examined JA with adoptive mothers, the adoptive fathers’ interaction styles with their children at 15 months were not related to children's vocabularies at 20 months as has been observed for mothers.

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