Bidirectional effects of parenting and child behavior in internationally adopting families.

ABSTRACT: Adoption marks a radical transition in caregiving for thousands of children adopted internationally from institutional care; however, very little is known about the quality of this parenting compared with other populations or the transactional effects of parent and child characteristics in postadoption families during the transition to family care. The current study examined parental sensitivity/responsiveness and structure/limit-setting in a group of 68 children adopted internationally from institutions (41 girls, 27 boys; M age = 26.13 months, SD = 4.99) and their parents over the first year after adoption and compared them to a sample of nonadoptive families (26 girls, 26 boys; M age = 27.65 months, SD = 5.71). Results indicated no mean-level differences in parenting quality on either d

SUBMITTER: Lawler JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5555788 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature