title: Parent-child relationships as a protective factor in preventing adolescents' psychosocial risk in inter-racial adoptive and non-adoptive families.
abstract: This study aims to compare family relations in inter-racial adoptive and non-adoptive families with a late adolescent and to examine the extent to which family relations constitute a protective factor in preventing adolescents' psychosocial risk. The sample consisted of 103 inter-racial adoptive families and 150 non-adoptive families with a child aged between 16 and 19 years. Subjects were requested to complete a self-report questionnaire. The results suggest the existence of a different relational configuration in inter-racial adoptive and non-adoptive families. They also show that the father-child relationship and the mother-child relationship play different roles in preventing the adolescent's maladjustment in inter-racial adoptive and non-adoptive families.
authors.affiliation: Centre of Family Studies and Research, Catholic University of Milan, Largo Gemelli, 1, Milano, 20123, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rosnati
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000300:Adoption; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment