Cultural activities in transracially adoptive families

ABSTRACT

The current study investigated how engagement in cultural activities impacted transracial adoptive parent satisfaction with adoption, closeness with child, and child academic outcomes. Data from the National Survey of Adoptive Parents were analyzed to expand upon previous studies. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to determine a “cultural activities” variable that consisted of five items. Results of regression analyses demonstrated significant associations between cultural activities and parent satisfaction with adoption, cultural activities and closeness with child, and cultural activities and child academic performance. A cultural receptivity process model informs the advocacy of cultural activity engagement in transracially adoptive families.

KEYWORDS:

• Transracial adoption
• cultural socialization
• racial-ethnic socialization
• satisfaction with adoption
• child academic performance

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The data described in this article are openly available in the Open Science Framework at DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/TPA6U.