Citation

Aramburu Alegret I, Pérez-Testor C, Mercadal Rotger J, Salamero Baró M, Davins Pujols M, Mirabent Junyent V, Aznar Martínez B, Brodzinsky D. J. Res. Adolesc. 2018; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Donaldson Adoption Institute.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/jora.12464

PMID

30367705

Abstract

This study evaluated the predictive relationship between the communicative openness and psychological adjustment of adopted adolescents, controlling for preplacement risk factors. One hundred Spanish international adoptees aged 12-18 took part in the study. Data were gathered with a structured interview, the Youth Self Report and the Adoption Communication Scale. A history of maltreatment prior to the adoption was associated with more closed communication between parents and children. Prenatal drug exposure shows a relationship with the presence of externalizing behaviors and attention problems in adolescents. Finally, a lower degree of communicative openness regarding the child's origins was significantly associated with the presence of all the adolescent behavioral problems studied.

© 2018 Society for Research on Adolescence.

Language: en