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Hanemaaijer, Anne (2014)

Zelfwaardering en Secure Base Script: Het verband tussen zelfwaardering en de gehechtheidsrepresentatie van vroeggeadopteerde jongvolwassenen

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

In this study we examined whether international adoptees’ self-esteem at age 14 and age 23 predict their attachment representations at age 23. The role of gender and country of origin in predicting attachment representations of adopted young adults was also taken into account. The adoptees were followed from infancy to young adulthood and were part of the Leiden Longitudinal Adoption Study. The adoptees (N=83) came from Sri Lanka, South Korea and Colombia. At age 14, self-esteem was measured with the California Child Q-set. At age 23, the Rosenberg Self-esteem scale was used to assess self-esteem, and at the same age the Secure Base Script was performed to measure the attachment representations of the adoptees.

adoption

early-adopted

attachment representations

self-esteem

secure base script

Author

Hanemaaijer, Anne

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Child and Family Studies

Supervisors

Schoenmaker, Christie

ECTS Credits

20

Language

nl