Ruth G McRoy
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Cashen K, Grotevant H, Battalen A, Sellers C, McRoy R
Fam Relat
. 2021 Mar;
70(1):120-129.
PMID: 33707808
Objective: To understand how adult adoptees use traditional and tech-mediated modes of communication in contact with birth parents. To examine associations between desire for increased use of both modes and...
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Lo A, Grotevant H, McRoy R
Adopt Q
. 2019 Oct;
22(1):75-93.
PMID: 31598062
Adoption research often includes multiple members of the adoption network, each of whom has distinctive perspectives. Participants may include adopted individuals and their siblings as well as adoptive parents, birth...
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Battalen A, Dow-Fleisner S, Brodzinsky D, McRoy R
J Evid Based Soc Work (2019)
. 2019 Feb;
16(2):178-191.
PMID: 30739591
We tested the validity and measurement invariance of the Transracial Adoptive Parenting scale (TAPS) across sexual orientation with a nationwide sample of adoptive parents. Our study sample consisted of 737...
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Sellers C, McRoy R, McManama OBrien K
Addict Behav
. 2019 Jan;
93:39-45.
PMID: 30684820
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the longitudinal predictors of alcohol use, marijuana use, and suicidal ideation among maltreated adolescents. Methods: Longitudinal data from this study come...
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Grotevant H, Wrobel G, Fiorenzo L, Lo A, McRoy R
J Fam Psychol
. 2018 Jul;
33(1):54-63.
PMID: 30035570
Emotional distance regulation theory (Broderick, 1993; Grotevant, 2009) guided this examination of the changes in family structure and process in adoptive kinship networks experiencing different arrangements of contact between birth...
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Grotevant H, McRoy R, Wrobel G, Ayers-Lopez S
Child Dev Perspect
. 2013 Aug;
7(3):193-198.
PMID: 23956791
A growing number of adoptive families have contact with their children's birth relatives. The Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project is examining longitudinally the consequences of variations in contact arrangements for...
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Henney S, French C, Ayers-Lopez S, McRoy R, Grotevant H
J Fam Psychol
. 2011 Jul;
25(4):620-4.
PMID: 21728420
Using a mixed-methods approach, the understudied population of birth mothers who placed their infants for adoption 12-20 years ago was explored in the context of their romantic relationships. In a...
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Grotevant H, Wrobel G, Von Korff L, Skinner B, Newell J, Friese S, et al.
Adopt Q
. 2010 Aug;
10(3 & 4):79-101.
PMID: 20802843
Parents and adolescents (mean age, 15.7 years) from 177 adoptive families participating in the second wave of the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project were interviewed about their post-adoption contact arrangements. The...
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Berge J, Mendenhall T, Wrobel G, Grotevant H, McRoy R
Child Welfare
. 2007 Feb;
85(6):1011-39.
PMID: 17305046
Adoption research commonly uses parents' reports of satisfaction when examining openness in adoption arrangements. This qualitative study aimed to fill a gap in the adoption research by using adolescents' voices...