Adoption is a natural intervention for children’s recovery in socio-emotional development; however the high variability among adoptees’ adjustment pathways suggests the need of further investigating individual and intra-family variables involved in this process. Considering the role of children’s differential susceptibility to the environment and the role of parents’ attachment state of mind our aim is twofold: to corroborate the role of adoptive parents’ attachment and to test the interaction between this latter, children’s age at adoption and temperament on adoptees’ attachment distribution. 79 children (65% male, n=30 early adoptees, n=48 late adoptees) and their adoptive parents took part at the study. In the current proceeding, preliminary results are presented and the implication from an applied and theoretical perspective discussed.
Do children’s temperament and adoptive parents’ attachment matter with adoptees’ attachment?
LIONETTI, FRANCESCA;BARONE, LAVINIA
2013-01-01
Abstract
Adoption is a natural intervention for children’s recovery in socio-emotional development; however the high variability among adoptees’ adjustment pathways suggests the need of further investigating individual and intra-family variables involved in this process. Considering the role of children’s differential susceptibility to the environment and the role of parents’ attachment state of mind our aim is twofold: to corroborate the role of adoptive parents’ attachment and to test the interaction between this latter, children’s age at adoption and temperament on adoptees’ attachment distribution. 79 children (65% male, n=30 early adoptees, n=48 late adoptees) and their adoptive parents took part at the study. In the current proceeding, preliminary results are presented and the implication from an applied and theoretical perspective discussed.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
