Adoptees' ethnic identity within family and social contexts / Elena L. Grigorenko [and three others], editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

CAD Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Grigorenko, Elena L., editor.

Series:

New directions for child and adolescent development ; Number 150.

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development ; Number 150

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adopted children--Psychology.

Adopted children.

Adoptees--Identification.

Adoptees.

Interethnic adoption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This special issue addresses the construction of ethnic identity among international transracial adoptees, which typically involve the placement of Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Multiracial children with White parents. International transracial adoptees, similar to immigrants, navigate a cultural and ethnic context other than their birth culture. However, they are unique in that they navigate these experiences within families who don't share their cultural, ethnic, and racial background. Critical questions emerge about the construction and development of their ethnic identity. These questions include the role that transracial adoptive parents play in providing cultural socialization (exposure to children's birth culture); the impact of culture camps designed to provide cultural socialization in the context of peers; the intersection of adoptive identity and ethnic identity and youth adjustment; whether relations between ethnic identity and adjustment are linear or curvilinear; the role of bicultural identity integration as a link between ethnic identity and pscyhosocial adjustment; and ethnic identity processes among internationally transracially adopted young adults who mentor younger adoptees from similar cultures. These questions are addressed in this special issue in a collection of studies that examine ethnic identity among diverse international transracial adoptees, at different ages, adopted into two countries and using differing sample sizes and methodologies. International transracial adoptive families represent a microcosm of the growing international, transracial, and transethnic social transactions taking place in this diverse world. The collective findings in this special issue about the multidimensionality of ethnic identity and its intersectionality with other identities across developmental eras not only enhance knowledge about identity development among international transracial adoptees, but also expand understanding about identity development in general. This is the 150th volume in this Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development . Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts from that field.

Contents:

Intro

Adoptees' Ethnic Identity Within Family and Social Contexts

CONTENTS

1 Introduction to Special Issue: Adoptees' Ethnic Identity Within Family and Social Contexts

References

2 "American" or "Multiethnic" ? Family Ethnic Identity Among Transracial Adoptive Families, Ethnic-Racial Socialization, and Children's Self-Perception

Introduction

Ethnic Identity and Middle Childhood

Cultural Socialization

Method

Participants and Recruitment

Procedure

Constructs and Measures

Data Analyses

Results

Relations Among Parent Role Variables

Children's Self-Views and Parent Role Variables

Discussion

Children's Ethnic Labels

Limitations

Summary and Implications

Author Note

Funding

3 Culture Camp, Ethnic Identity, and Adoption Socialization for Korean Adoptees: A Pretest and Posttest Study

Racial-Ethnic Socialization

Reculturation

Psychological Adjustment

Culture Camps as Interventions

Methodology

Participants

The Culture Camp

Measures

Preliminary Analyses

Impact of the Culture Camp Intervention

Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Depression

Post Hoc Analyses

Implications of This Study: Research and Practice

4 Ethnic Identity and Psychological Well-Being of International Transracial Adoptees: A Curvilinear Relationship

Conceptual Framework and Literature Review

Hypothesis

Methods

Sample Characteristics

Ethnic Identity

Psychological Well-Being

Self-Esteem

Brief Symptom Inventory

Statistical Analysis

Curvilinear Effect of Ethnic Identity on Self-Esteem and Psychological Distress

References.

5 Korean Adoptee Identity: Adoptive and Ethnic Identity Profiles of Adopted Korean Americans

Identity

Current Study

Participants and Procedure

Identity Profiles

Limitations and Future Directions

Conclusion

Note

6 Ethnic Identity, Bicultural Identity Integration, and Psychological Well-Being Among Transracial Adoptees: A Longitudinal Study

Ethnic Identity, National Identity, and Bicultural Identity Integration of Transracial Adoptees

Adoptees' Age at Adoption and Gender

Aims

Preliminary Analysis

Cross-Lagged Model Testing

Tests of Mediating Effects

7 Participation in the Adoption Mentoring Partnership: Mentors' Experiences of Ethnic Identity

The Adoption Mentoring Partnership

Program Description

Adopted Mentor Interview

Coding and Data Analysis

Results and Discussion

Personal Ethnic Identity Exploration

Communication With Family Members About Ethnicity and Adoption

Social Exchanges

Participants Seeking New Personal Meaning of Ethnicity While Participating in AMP

Concluding Thoughts on AMP and Ethnic Identity Development

Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions

8 New Trends and Directions in Ethnic Identity Among Internationally Transracially Adopted Persons: Summary of Special Issue

9 Commentary-Enlarging Concepts, Refining Methods, Improving Interventions

Enlarging Concepts

Refining Methods

Improving Interventions

INDEX.

OTHER TITLES

ORDER FORM

EULA.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-119-21661-3

1-119-21660-5

OCLC:

935251672