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Karen.
Presentation on Child and Adult Attachment Theory. Also includes result of a small survey done with my friends. Part of the 'Personality and Development' course at IIT Delhi
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0408618165
Karen.
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Contents lists available at ScienceDirectJournal of Adoles.docxmaxinesmith73660
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Journal of Adolescence
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/adolescence
Young adolescents’ responsiveness to sexual communication with
their mother: Distinguishing diverse intentions
Heather A. Sears∗, Brett S. Robinson1, E. Sandra Byers
Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada
A R T I C L E I N F O
Keywords:
Responsiveness
Intentions
Sexual communication
Young adolescents
Mothers
A B S T R A C T
Introduction: It is unlikely that parents can have effective sexuality discussions with their ado-
lescent if the adolescent is not responsive to their efforts. We evaluated young adolescents’ in-
tentions of being responsive to sexual communication with their mother and whether youths who
were likely, ambivalent, or unlikely to be responsive differed on their characteristics, features of
previous sexual communication, and features of the mother-adolescent relationship.
Methods: Participants were 259 Canadian adolescents (12–14 years; 53% girls) who received and
returned a survey by mail. They completed measures of responsiveness intentions, expected
outcomes of sexual communication, extent of past sexual communication, the frequency with
which mothers encouraged questions and provided information about sexuality topics, open
communication, and mothers’ provision of warmth, structure, and autonomy support.
Results: We found that 37% of adolescents were likely to be responsive to sexual communication
with their mother, 34% were ambivalent, and 29% were unlikely to be responsive. Youths’ re-
sponsiveness intentions were general rather than topic-specific. A discriminant analysis showed
that only features of previous sexual communication separated all three groups whereas specific
mother-adolescent relationship features (open communication and structure) and one adolescent
characteristic (expected outcomes) separated the unlikely group from the other groups.
Conclusions: Young adolescents' intentions of being responsive to sexual communication from
their mother are diverse yet general in nature. Mothers' engagement in sexual communication
appears essential for youths' openness to these discussions. Enhancing specific mother-adolescent
relationship features and youths’ outcome expectations may shift adolescents who are resistant to
sexuality discussions to being more sure.
1. Introduction
Communication between parents and their adolescents about sexual health topics has the potential to be a win-win situation for
both parties. For parents, sexual communication is an opportunity to fulfill one of their acknowledged responsibilities by providing
information that can prevent negative sexual outcomes and sharing attitudes and values (Flores & Barroso, 2017; Jerman &
Constantine, 2010). For adolescents, sexual communication is an opportunity to gain factual information and practical skills from one
of their preferred sources of sexu.
Contents lists available at ScienceDirectJournal of Adoles.docxdickonsondorris
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Journal of Adolescence
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/adolescence
Young adolescents’ responsiveness to sexual communication with
their mother: Distinguishing diverse intentions
Heather A. Sears∗, Brett S. Robinson1, E. Sandra Byers
Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada
A R T I C L E I N F O
Keywords:
Responsiveness
Intentions
Sexual communication
Young adolescents
Mothers
A B S T R A C T
Introduction: It is unlikely that parents can have effective sexuality discussions with their ado-
lescent if the adolescent is not responsive to their efforts. We evaluated young adolescents’ in-
tentions of being responsive to sexual communication with their mother and whether youths who
were likely, ambivalent, or unlikely to be responsive differed on their characteristics, features of
previous sexual communication, and features of the mother-adolescent relationship.
Methods: Participants were 259 Canadian adolescents (12–14 years; 53% girls) who received and
returned a survey by mail. They completed measures of responsiveness intentions, expected
outcomes of sexual communication, extent of past sexual communication, the frequency with
which mothers encouraged questions and provided information about sexuality topics, open
communication, and mothers’ provision of warmth, structure, and autonomy support.
Results: We found that 37% of adolescents were likely to be responsive to sexual communication
with their mother, 34% were ambivalent, and 29% were unlikely to be responsive. Youths’ re-
sponsiveness intentions were general rather than topic-specific. A discriminant analysis showed
that only features of previous sexual communication separated all three groups whereas specific
mother-adolescent relationship features (open communication and structure) and one adolescent
characteristic (expected outcomes) separated the unlikely group from the other groups.
Conclusions: Young adolescents' intentions of being responsive to sexual communication from
their mother are diverse yet general in nature. Mothers' engagement in sexual communication
appears essential for youths' openness to these discussions. Enhancing specific mother-adolescent
relationship features and youths’ outcome expectations may shift adolescents who are resistant to
sexuality discussions to being more sure.
1. Introduction
Communication between parents and their adolescents about sexual health topics has the potential to be a win-win situation for
both parties. For parents, sexual communication is an opportunity to fulfill one of their acknowledged responsibilities by providing
information that can prevent negative sexual outcomes and sharing attitudes and values (Flores & Barroso, 2017; Jerman &
Constantine, 2010). For adolescents, sexual communication is an opportunity to gain factual information and practical skills from one
of their preferred sources of sexu.
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...
Open Adoption Research
1. +
Current Research on Open Adoption
Presenter: Jennifer Bliss, PsyD, MSW, LCSW
2. +
In 2012 ..
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption
Institute Published the
Executive Summary
“OPENNESS IN ADOPTION:
FROM SECRECY AND STIGMA
TO KNOWLEDGE AND
CONNECTIONS - Authors:
Deborah H. Siegel, Ph.D. and Susan
Livingston Smith, LCSW
The results summarized
survey findings from 100 infant
adoption programs in the US
regarding their practice
surrounding openness.
3. + Current
Adoption
Statistics
"Closed" infant adoptions have shrunk to a tiny
minority (about 5 percent), with 40 percent
"mediated" and 55 percent "open." In addition,
95 percent of agencies now offer open
adoptions.
Collectively, research demonstrates how
openness benefits all three members of
the triad.
4. +
ADOPTEES
Youth in open adoptions have a better understanding of the
meaning of adoption and have more open communication
about adoption with their adoptive parents
Adolescents with ongoing contact are more satisfied with
their level of openness than are those without contact, and
they identify the following benefits:
Coming to terms with the reasons for their adoption
Physical touchstones to identify where personal traits came from
Information that aids in identity formation
Positive feelings toward birthmother
5. +
BIRTHMOTHERS
Women who have placed their infants
for adoption – and then have ongoing
contact with their children – report
less grief, regret and worry, as well as
more peace of mind than do those
who do not have contact.
6. +
ADOPTIVE PARENTS
Adoptive parents, like most participants in open adoptions,
report positive experiences;
More openness is also associated with greater satisfaction
with the adoption process.
Adoptive parents as a group report positive experiences with
open adoptions and high levels of comfort with contact. For
them, greater openness is linked with reduced fear of and
greater empathy toward birthparents, more open
communication with their children about adoption, and other
benefits in their relationships with their adopted children.
7. Longitudinal studies on the effects
of open adoption:
Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP)
Deborah Siegel’s research: Openness from the
adoptive parents’ perspective
+
8. +
Minnesota/Texas Adoption
Research Project (MTARP)
35 adoption agencies that facilitated voluntary infant
adoptions with all three levels of openness participated in
the study.
Each agency stratified their total population so that the
researchers could randomly select a representative sample
of families for each level of openness.
The final sample included 190 adoptive parents, 171 adopted
children and 169 birthmothers. The sample was
overwhelmingly, white, protestant, and middle or upper class,
from 23 states representing all regions of the United States. It
included representative samples of families in open, semi-
open, and closed adoptions.
9. + The first wave of research, when the children were between
the ages of 4 and 12, with the majority between the ages 5 ½
and 8 ½ years, found that:
There was no relationship found
between adoption openness and
self-esteem, either positively or
negatively.
Children’s understanding of
adoption increased as they reported
having more information about their
birthparents.
Children whose adoptive and
birthparents had collaborative
relationships were doing better on
ratings of psychosocial adjustment.
10. + During the second wave of
research, the children were ages
11-21 years, with most between
12 ½ and 15 ½ years. The data
showed that:
Adopted adolescents and adoptive parents who had contact
with their birthmothers were the most satisfied of all the
groups with the level of contact.
Those with no contact were the least satisfied.
None of the adoptees who had contact with their birth
mothers felt any fear, hatred, surprise, anger, or confusion
about who their parents were.
Adolescents in open adoptions reported significantly lower
levels of externalizing behaviors than those in closed
adoptions.
11. +
Deborah Siegel’s Research
Focus: Openness From The Adoptive
Parents’ Perspective
21 sets of adoptive parents were interviewed in three waves. The
sample was composed almost entirely of white, middle to upper
middle class, heterosexual, two parent families who adopted
white children.
In the first wave of the study, when the children were under a
year, the researcher found that adoptive parents were
overwhelmingly and strikingly positive about open adoption,
often because they believed it was in the best interest of their
child.
This trend continued in the second wave of the study when the
children where six and seven years old. Strikingly, no adoptive
parents indicated they wished they had less openness. Any wish
for a change in openness was for more contact, not less. Again,
parents believed that openness was in the best interest of their
child.
12. +
Focus: Openness From The Adoptive Parents’
Perspective (continued)
In the third wave when the children were 14 and 15 years old,
adoptive parents were explicit in how they believed openness
benefitted their children. All of the adoptive parents saw
openness as helping their child deal with identity issues, and
none felt that openness exacerbated the issues of adolescence.
All of the adoptive parents expressed positive feelings about
open adoption.
Finally, adoptive parents even felt positively about contact with
birthparents who had mental health or substance abuse
problems, noting that birthparents did not engage in threatening
behaviors during contact, and that the benefits of contact were
still important for their adolescent.
*Note: No children had run away to live with their birth family.
Editor's Notes
Published in 1997 in the Journal of Applied Developmental Science Ruth McRoy and Harold Grotevant
OPENNESS IN ADOPTION:FROM SECRECY AND STIGMA TO KNOWLEDGE AND CONNECTIONSAuthors: Deborah H. Siegel, Ph.D. and Susan Livingston Smith, LCSWPublished: 2012 March, New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute