Adoptive identity narratives of emerging adults who had no contact with their birth parents

• Main Authors: Abesamis, Paola Marie R., Mayoralgo, Tomas Paolo L., Pastolero, Czarina B., Urbano, Kimberly Ann C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Identity (Psychology); Adoption; Adopted children; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/10736
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research study about adoptive identity narratives of emerging adults who had no contact with their birth parents aims to present and describe and the adoptive identity narratives of the participating emerging adults as an individual to fully show their personal stories on how they gave meaning and experienced adoption before and after confirmation, and during or present adoption life. Moreover, another objective of this study is to look at common themes within their narratives to show the overall adoptive identity of the respondents as a population. These were done by addressing the main question of what is the constructed adoptive identity narrative of emerging adults who do not have contact with their birth parents? And to fully understand the narratives, the following sub-questions were addressed: (a) What is the narrative of adopted children before they knew they were adopted? (b) What is their reaction after knowing that they are adopted? (c) What is the effect of adoption during their adolescence years? (d) Now that they are emerging adults, what is their view on their adoption? and (e) What is the outlook of the emerging adults towards their future knowing that they are adopted? This study can contribute by providing information that can help people especially the chosen participants and others who are involve in adoption to have a deeper understanding of how the participants' situation lead to their constructed adoptive identity narratives. Also, this study can also serve a future reference for researchers concerning adoption. This study was done using a qualitative research design where the participants were interviewed and the data gathered were studied through narrative analysis. The study had 11 participants (4 males and 7 females)