The experience of adoption and its relationship with identity formation in adults
The thesis includes a systematic review of birth-family searching and an empirical qualitative study with 15 adopted adults examining adoption communication, birth-family contact, identity and self-esteem.
Limitations: Opportunity sample of 15 in the empirical study; thesis rather than peer-reviewed journal publication.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis; systematic review and qualitative study
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Mixed
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified in the bibliographic material screened. This is not confirmation of institutional independence; affiliations, funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adult adoptees, birth family, identity, search, self-esteem, UK research
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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- Commissioner
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- Funder role
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- Declared conflicts
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- Recruitment
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- Adoptee involvement
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