Adopted Chinese girls come of age: Feelings about adoption, ethnic identity, academic functioning, and global self-esteem
- 作者：Tony Xing Tana ; tan@usf.edu ; Brittany Jordan-Arthurb
- 关键词：Feelings about adoption ; Ethnic identity ; Ethnic marginality ; Academic functioning ; Global self-esteem ; Adopted Chinese girls
- 刊名：Children and Youth Services Review
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：13_01907409
- 类别：psy
- 出版时间：August, 2012
- 卷：34
- 期：8
- 页码：1500-1508
- 文件大小：300 K
摘要
Developmentally salient constructs (e.g., adoption, ethnicity and competence) play important roles in trans-racial adoptees' self-esteem during adolescence. Understanding how adoptees' feelings about adoption, ethnic socialization and academic functioning are related to their self-esteem may help foster resilience in this population. The current study included 234 adopted Chinese youth (95.7%female; Mean age: 13.6 years), 97.4%of whom were raised in families where one or both parents were White. The adoptees' feelings about adoption was assessed with the Adoption Dynamics Questionnaire (ADQ), their ethnic socialization was assessed with the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) and the Ethnic Marginality subscale from the Belongingness and Ethnic Identity scale, their academic functioning was assessed with the Academic Functioning subscale adapted from the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS), and finally their global self-esteem was assessed with the Rosenberg Self-esteem scale (RSE). Simple correlations showed that scores of all scales were significantly correlated with global self-esteem score. Analyses of variance (ANOVAs) showed that the ethnic labels that the adoptees used to describe their ethnicity did not differentiate their global self-esteem scores. Regression analyses revealed that positive affect towards adoption, ethnic identity affirmation, ethnic marginality, academic functioning, and an interaction between positive affect towards adoption and ethnic marginality significantly predicted global self-esteem (R2 = 36.45%).