Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2108428
Jessica Gasiorek, Craig Fowler
ABSTRACT Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging, this study examined the relationship between the frequency of parents’ negative talk about aging (i.e., complaints about age and use of age-based excuses) and young adult children’s negative affect and efficacy about aging. It also investigated the degree to which a family’s general tendency to engage in open communication affected these outcomes. Cross-sectional survey data indicated that the frequency of mothers’ and fathers’ complaints about aging (as reported by young adults) predicted young adults’ negative affect and efficacy related to aging, respectively. The relationship between mothers’ use of age excuses and young adults’ negative affect about aging was moderated by their families’ tendency to engage in open communication.
{"title":"Associations between Parents’ Negative Talk about Aging and Young Adults’ Negative Affect and Efficacy Related to Aging","authors":"Jessica Gasiorek, Craig Fowler","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2108428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2108428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging, this study examined the relationship between the frequency of parents’ negative talk about aging (i.e., complaints about age and use of age-based excuses) and young adult children’s negative affect and efficacy about aging. It also investigated the degree to which a family’s general tendency to engage in open communication affected these outcomes. Cross-sectional survey data indicated that the frequency of mothers’ and fathers’ complaints about aging (as reported by young adults) predicted young adults’ negative affect and efficacy related to aging, respectively. The relationship between mothers’ use of age excuses and young adults’ negative affect about aging was moderated by their families’ tendency to engage in open communication.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"374 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48588339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2097234
Melissa Rizzo Weller
ABSTRACT This study focused on how adopted adults who have reunited with at least one birth family member experienced identity shifts related to their original birth certificates (OBCs). Framed by the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), 50 adopted adults discussed their experiences related to their OBCs and how their identities are connected to this symbol through three of the layers of CTI, the personal, enacted, and relational layers. Participants discussed the presence of an ambiguous and unsolvable identity that interpenetrated with their other identity layers. Findings extend CTI to include an additional layer for adoptees – phantom identity – which can explain the life adoptees would have lived had they not been adopted. This identity was salient for participants as it manifested in ways such as expressing frustration with obstacles in gaining access to their OBC and refocusing their professional life to support other adopted adults. Moreover, findings offer implications for the examination into current adoption record practices in the United States, additional state mutual consent registries, and increased access to adoption-competent counselors for adoptees.
{"title":"“I Want the Piece of Paper that Is My History, and Why the Hell Can’t I Have It?”: Original Birth Certificates and Adoptive Identity","authors":"Melissa Rizzo Weller","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2097234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2097234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focused on how adopted adults who have reunited with at least one birth family member experienced identity shifts related to their original birth certificates (OBCs). Framed by the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), 50 adopted adults discussed their experiences related to their OBCs and how their identities are connected to this symbol through three of the layers of CTI, the personal, enacted, and relational layers. Participants discussed the presence of an ambiguous and unsolvable identity that interpenetrated with their other identity layers. Findings extend CTI to include an additional layer for adoptees – phantom identity – which can explain the life adoptees would have lived had they not been adopted. This identity was salient for participants as it manifested in ways such as expressing frustration with obstacles in gaining access to their OBC and refocusing their professional life to support other adopted adults. Moreover, findings offer implications for the examination into current adoption record practices in the United States, additional state mutual consent registries, and increased access to adoption-competent counselors for adoptees.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"271 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45133781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2101458
C. Colaner
ABSTRACT This special issue of the Journal of Family Communication highlights the role of communication processes in adoption placements. Six original, peer-reviewed, empirical articles comprise this special issue. Together, these articles represent cutting-edge research on the formative dialogue that sustains adoption kinship networks. Each article is theoretically driven and analytically rich, offering important advancements for adoption and communication research and theory. In this introduction, I preview each article, emphasizing key empirical contributions. I then talk about the collective contributions of the articles. Finally, I offer future directions salient to the next phase of adoption communication research.
{"title":"Adoption, Communication, and Family Networks: Current Research and Future Directions","authors":"C. Colaner","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2101458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2101458","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue of the Journal of Family Communication highlights the role of communication processes in adoption placements. Six original, peer-reviewed, empirical articles comprise this special issue. Together, these articles represent cutting-edge research on the formative dialogue that sustains adoption kinship networks. Each article is theoretically driven and analytically rich, offering important advancements for adoption and communication research and theory. In this introduction, I preview each article, emphasizing key empirical contributions. I then talk about the collective contributions of the articles. Finally, I offer future directions salient to the next phase of adoption communication research.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"185 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49543431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2097235
E. A. Suter, K. Schoenbauer, P. Qiu
ABSTRACT We conducted a relational dialectics analysis of 259 Chinese birth planning policy propaganda. We identified a coalition of five discourses animating the texts. We found the coalition created conditions of monologic wholeness, characterized by simultaneous dialogic expansion and dialogic contraction. Dialogic expansion promised a utopic, future China in exchange for birth parents’ childbirth sacrifices and creation of a generation of superior-quality singleton Chinese children. Dialogic contraction reified superior-quality singletons as irrefutable antecedent for China’s modernization. This study holds both academic and practical significance. Academically, this study accelerates family communication’s critical theoretical turn, highlights complexities of studying monologue, expands the area’s dataset boundaries, and furthers diversity efforts. Practically, this study promises transformation of acontextual Western perspectives on China’s birth planning program. The study’s non-Western perspective is timely, given increasing momentum within the Chinese transnational adoption birth family search and reunion movement.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2097237
S. Lee, J. Liu, A. Kimura, X. Zhang, J. Kupa, A. Jurcă, K. Boland, E. Pinderhughes
ABSTRACT Adoptive families must navigate public discourse about adoption. This study examined how transracial adoptive (TRA) and same-race adoptive (SRA) families communicated to their children through internal boundary management, teaching external boundary management strategies, and preparation for bias as ways to address adoption microaggressions (AMAs). 104 U.S. adoptive parents (TRA = 77; SRA = 27) completed a survey about their communication about four types of AMA situations (i.e., Lucky, Destiny, “Deficient” Birth Parents, Search). What parents directly communicated to the child to address these AMAs and links to what parents thought of AMAs were explored. Nine themes emerged within parents’ communication reflecting different uses of internal boundary management, teaching external boundary management, and preparation for bias strategies. Findings illuminated the complexities in parents’ direct communication involving nuanced messages to adopted children about navigating AMAs. Enhanced education and training for adoptive parents can improve their understanding and ability to help children who are adopted address adoption bias.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2097236
A. Goldberg, Haylie Virginia
ABSTRACT This study explored how adoptive parents perceive their children’s adoptive status as impacting their experience of puberty, how they manage uncertainty associated with their children’s transition to puberty, and how they communicate with their children about puberty, using data from 60 adoptive parents, including lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and heterosexual mothers and fathers. Findings revealed that some parents used information gleaned from birth family, the adoption community, and pediatricians to reduce uncertainty associated with puberty. Parents, particularly lesbian/gay parents and parents of girls, described an open, progressively nuanced approach to communicating about puberty; other approaches included one-sided and information-oriented, avoidant and “hands off,” and delayed due to perceived lack of child “readiness.” Parents’ approach to puberty-related communication overlapped with how they conceptualized and approached communication about adoption.
{"title":"Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parents’ Perspectives on Their Adopted Children’s Puberty and Approaches to Puberty-Related Communication","authors":"A. Goldberg, Haylie Virginia","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2097236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2097236","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explored how adoptive parents perceive their children’s adoptive status as impacting their experience of puberty, how they manage uncertainty associated with their children’s transition to puberty, and how they communicate with their children about puberty, using data from 60 adoptive parents, including lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and heterosexual mothers and fathers. Findings revealed that some parents used information gleaned from birth family, the adoption community, and pediatricians to reduce uncertainty associated with puberty. Parents, particularly lesbian/gay parents and parents of girls, described an open, progressively nuanced approach to communicating about puberty; other approaches included one-sided and information-oriented, avoidant and “hands off,” and delayed due to perceived lack of child “readiness.” Parents’ approach to puberty-related communication overlapped with how they conceptualized and approached communication about adoption.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"248 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45284712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2095388
S. Ranieri, Laura Ferrari, R. Rosnati, Francesca Vittoria Danioni, E. Canzi, Laurie Miller
ABSTRACT Family systems theories consider cohesion, flexibility, and communication as distinct but related key dimensions of family functioning. These dimensions are underexplored within adoptive families. We investigated the extent to which family cohesion, flexibility, and adoption communication openness relate to the adjustment of adoptees in adolescence. A self-report questionnaire was completed by 134 family triads, composed of internationally adopted adolescents and their parents, for a total of 402 participants. Adoptees and their parents shared similarities, but also differences in perceptions of cohesion, flexibility, and adoption communication openness, all playing specific roles within the family context. Structural equation model with family-level analyses showed that the association between cohesion and the adjustment of adoptees was mediated by adoption communication openness, whereas flexibility was not associated with either communication openness nor with the adjustment of adoptees. Results are discussed in terms of implications for adoption research and practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2093356
Deborah B. Yoon, Jennifer A. Theiss
ABSTRACT Knowledge of genetic family health history (GFHH) plays an important role in encouraging individuals to take preventative health measures, but adopted individuals often face barriers to accessing this information. This study examines how uncertainty about GFHH is associated with various information management strategies for adopted individuals. We surveyed 154 adopted individuals to assess their uncertainty about GFHH, appraisals of the likely outcomes of information seeking, and preferences for information management. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results generally supported hypotheses, with (a) uncertainty discrepancy predicting anxiety and negative outcome assessments, (b) anxiety predicting negative outcome and efficacy assessments, and (c) negative outcome assessments generally predicting efficacy assessments and information management strategies. Efficacy assessments, however, were not significant predictors of information management strategies. The theoretical and translational implications of the findings are discussed.
{"title":"Adopted Individuals’ Information Management Strategies for Managing Uncertainty about Genetic Family Health History","authors":"Deborah B. Yoon, Jennifer A. Theiss","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2093356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2093356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Knowledge of genetic family health history (GFHH) plays an important role in encouraging individuals to take preventative health measures, but adopted individuals often face barriers to accessing this information. This study examines how uncertainty about GFHH is associated with various information management strategies for adopted individuals. We surveyed 154 adopted individuals to assess their uncertainty about GFHH, appraisals of the likely outcomes of information seeking, and preferences for information management. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results generally supported hypotheses, with (a) uncertainty discrepancy predicting anxiety and negative outcome assessments, (b) anxiety predicting negative outcome and efficacy assessments, and (c) negative outcome assessments generally predicting efficacy assessments and information management strategies. Efficacy assessments, however, were not significant predictors of information management strategies. The theoretical and translational implications of the findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"230 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47388463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-05DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2082431
K. Walker, G. Zimet
ABSTRACT This study used uncertainty management theory to assess mothers’ COVID-19-related uncertainty sources and management strategies during the Delta variant outbreak as the fall 2021 school year approached. Twenty-five mothers living in Indiana were interviewed between July-August 2021. Data indicated four uncertainty sources: COVID-19 illness risk, children’s psychological health, reintegration, and COVID-19 vaccine/prevention rights. COVID-19 illness risk was the most prominent uncertainty theme, and mothers attempted to adapt to it when they could via strategies of strategic decision making, engaging in protective behaviors, and seeking information to guide decisions about their children’s safety. The start of school presented uncertainties about young children’s COVID-19 risk they deemed out of their control, and thus mothers reframed illness uncertainty as the responsibility of others to protect their children. The findings offer theoretical implications for uncertainty management theory and practical implications for family health.
{"title":"Returning to Normal in an Abnormal Environment: Mothers’ COVID-19 Uncertainties and Uncertainty Management Strategies","authors":"K. Walker, G. Zimet","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2082431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2082431","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study used uncertainty management theory to assess mothers’ COVID-19-related uncertainty sources and management strategies during the Delta variant outbreak as the fall 2021 school year approached. Twenty-five mothers living in Indiana were interviewed between July-August 2021. Data indicated four uncertainty sources: COVID-19 illness risk, children’s psychological health, reintegration, and COVID-19 vaccine/prevention rights. COVID-19 illness risk was the most prominent uncertainty theme, and mothers attempted to adapt to it when they could via strategies of strategic decision making, engaging in protective behaviors, and seeking information to guide decisions about their children’s safety. The start of school presented uncertainties about young children’s COVID-19 risk they deemed out of their control, and thus mothers reframed illness uncertainty as the responsibility of others to protect their children. The findings offer theoretical implications for uncertainty management theory and practical implications for family health.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"311 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47399875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-26DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2069771
Quinten S. Bernhold, D. McCarty, H. Giles
ABSTRACT Guided by communication accommodation theory (CAT), this study examined whether young adults’ perceptions of similarity in their religious and political beliefs with a parent and grandparent were associated with young adults’ relationship satisfaction, as well as how identity accommodation from the older family member moderated these associations. Perceived similarity was not associated with relationship satisfaction at the main-effects level. However, perceptions of parent religious accommodation, parent political accommodation, and grandparent political accommodation moderated the associations between perceived similarity and relationship satisfaction. The study contributes to CAT by delineating the contingencies under which perceived similarity may be associated with relational health.
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