TY - JOUR
T1 - Attachment development in children adopted from China:The role of pre-adoption care and sensitive adoptive parenting
AU - Finet, Chloë
AU - Waters, Theodore E.A.
AU - Vermeer, Harriet J.
AU - Juffer, Femmie
AU - Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.
AU - Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.
AU - Bosmans, Guy
N1 - Funding Information:
We are very grateful to the girls and their parents for their generous participation to this study. Moreover, we would like to thank the students who helped in coding the Attachment Script Assessment. Femmie Juffer is supported by the Chair on Adoption Studies and Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn is supported by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Spinoza award).
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [G075718N]; Research Fund KU Leuven [OT/12/043]. We are very grateful to the girls and their parents for their generous participation to this study. Moreover, we would like to thank the students who helped in coding the Attachment Script Assessment. Femmie Juffer is supported by the Chair on Adoption Studies and Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn is supported by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Spinoza award).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The current study examined the attachment development of 92 internationally adopted Chinese girls, focusing on the influence of type of pre-adoption care (institutional versus foster care) and sensitive adoptive parenting. Although the children were more often insecurely attached than non-adopted children 2 and 6 months after adoption (Times 1 and 2, N = 92), they had similar levels of secure base script knowledge (SBS knowledge) as a non-adopted comparison group at age 10 (Time 3, N = 87). Furthermore, concurrently observed sensitive parenting was positively associated with SBS knowledge. Finally, a significant interaction between type of pre-adoption care and early-childhood sensitive parenting indicated that the post-institutionalized children showed a stronger increase in security than the post-foster children when parents were more sensitive.
AB - The current study examined the attachment development of 92 internationally adopted Chinese girls, focusing on the influence of type of pre-adoption care (institutional versus foster care) and sensitive adoptive parenting. Although the children were more often insecurely attached than non-adopted children 2 and 6 months after adoption (Times 1 and 2, N = 92), they had similar levels of secure base script knowledge (SBS knowledge) as a non-adopted comparison group at age 10 (Time 3, N = 87). Furthermore, concurrently observed sensitive parenting was positively associated with SBS knowledge. Finally, a significant interaction between type of pre-adoption care and early-childhood sensitive parenting indicated that the post-institutionalized children showed a stronger increase in security than the post-foster children when parents were more sensitive.
KW - International adoption
KW - attachment
KW - pre-adoption care
KW - secure base script
KW - sensitive parenting
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U2 - 10.1080/14616734.2020.1760902
DO - 10.1080/14616734.2020.1760902
M3 - Article
C2 - 32396768
AN - SCOPUS:85084988319
SN - 1461-6734
VL - 23
SP - 587
EP - 607
JO - Attachment and Human Development
JF - Attachment and Human Development
IS - 5
ER -