Filipino adult adoptees' experience in searching for their biological origins

Date of Publication

2012

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology

Subject Categories

Psychology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Thesis Adviser

Ma. Caridad Tarroja

Defense Panel Member

Roseann Tan-Mansukhani

Abstract/Summary

The different aspects of adoption search were studied in this research to gain more knowledge about adoption situations and what causes an adoptee to search. The objectives of the study are finding out the experiences of adoptees prior to searching and their influence to the adoptive search, and the outcomes of the reunion that included adjustment and identity. Seven Filipino adult adoptee respondents were interviewed in this research. Feelings of difference, incompleteness, and curiosity were found out in this study. Additional finding like feeling left out, social stigma, and jealousy surfaced. Emotions and thoughts of confusion, joy, and indifference were found out during the reunion of the adoptees mad birth parents. In this research, reunions do not always result to positive outcomes. This study also included implications and recommendations for future researchers, clinicians, birth, and adoptive families.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU16799

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

191 leaves, 28 cm.

Keywords

Adoptees--Psychology; Adoptees--Philippines; Adoption

Embargo Period

4-16-2021

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