TY - JOUR
T1 - Parents’ Management of Privacy Turbulence Surrounding Private, Adoption-Related Information in Transracial, Internationally Adoptive Families
AU - Loftus, Mary Claire Morr
AU - Suter, Elizabeth A.
AU - Hanna, Michele D.
AU - Strasser, Daniel S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a University of Denver Professional Research Opportunities for Faculty grant to the first two authors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Parents (N = 166) in transracial, international adoptive (TIA) families with children from China or Vietnam were surveyed to investigate their experiences with privacy turbulence surrounding the family’s private, adoption-related information. About half described at least one instance of privacy turbulence, with a total of 98 instances. The instances included examples of all six types of privacy turbulence described in Communication Privacy Management theory, but two of those types, namely boundary rule mistakes and boundary definition predicaments, accounted for 90% of the instances of turbulence. Evidence of explicit rules and catalyst criteria for rule formation in the turbulence descriptions suggest ways that TIA parents might be able to avoid or manage privacy turbulence.
AB - Parents (N = 166) in transracial, international adoptive (TIA) families with children from China or Vietnam were surveyed to investigate their experiences with privacy turbulence surrounding the family’s private, adoption-related information. About half described at least one instance of privacy turbulence, with a total of 98 instances. The instances included examples of all six types of privacy turbulence described in Communication Privacy Management theory, but two of those types, namely boundary rule mistakes and boundary definition predicaments, accounted for 90% of the instances of turbulence. Evidence of explicit rules and catalyst criteria for rule formation in the turbulence descriptions suggest ways that TIA parents might be able to avoid or manage privacy turbulence.
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U2 - 10.1080/15267431.2021.2005068
DO - 10.1080/15267431.2021.2005068
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122158624
VL - 22
SP - 55
EP - 70
JO - Journal of Family Communication
JF - Journal of Family Communication
SN - 1526-7431
IS - 1
ER -