Typologies of adoptive families and security in child apprentication behaviors

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Published: Nov 4, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.1001
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attachment reflexive function parental stress family typologies and international adoption

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Nieves Fátima Oropesa Ruiz
Universidad de Almería

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In order to analyze the family characteristics that favor the positive development of adopted children, relationships between different family dimensions (adult attachment, reflexive function, stress and interactions) have been studied, trying to identify family typologies based on these characteristics Family members. Delving into all these issues in the “natural” context of adoption allows for a unique environment to address the effect of environmental variables before and after adoption. From this perspective, adoption is presented as a very valuable research context to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of families and child psychological adjustment. In this direction the objective of the present investigation is to develop a predictive model for the security in the attachment behaviors of the minors from different typologies of families and sociodemographic variables. The sample was formed by 98 Spanish families, 40 adoptive families and 58 non-adoptive families. The results showed that a positive view of the affective experience of the child was strongly related to a greater safety in the attachment behaviors of the children and that high levels of stress in the raising of the children was negatively associated with the security in the children. Attachment behaviors of minors. Conglomerate analysis showed that when fathers and mothers belonged to the second family typology, safety in children’s attachment behaviors increased. Future lines of research should continue to deepen the relationships established between parental reflexive function, parental stress and child attachment (behavioral and representational level).

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Oropesa Ruiz, N. F. (2017). Typologies of adoptive families and security in child apprentication behaviors. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 3(1), 327–336. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.1001
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): MONOGRAPH NO. 2. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE FUTURE. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.
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