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Let's Start at the Beginning: The Relationship between Entrance Narratives and Adoptees' Self Concepts

Kranstuber, Haley Ann
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217370913

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2008, Master of Arts, Miami University, Speech Communication.
Families construct stories to validate milestones such as a marriage proposal or the birth of a child, and these stories heavily influence family members' identities. But what happens when an essential narrative is incomplete, or "broken," as is the case with birth stories in adoptive families? Adoptees are disconnected partially or entirely from those involved in their birth stories, so adoptive families must create adoption entrance narratives to fill the birth story void. These stories explain the concept of adoption to the child and establish an adoptee's place in the family and in the world, thereby potentially yielding much influence over adoptees' self concepts. Drawing from theoretical frameworks of narrative theory and symbolic interactionism, this study seeks to discover themes emergent from adoption entrance narratives, and then analyze the relationship between these themes and adoptees' self concepts.
Ann Bainbridge Frymier (Advisor)
Larry Nadler (Committee Member)
Stephanie Rollie (Committee Member)
95 p.
Communication; Families and Family Life
entrance narratives; adoption; family narratives; narrative themes; self concept; self esteem; identity; generalized trust

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  • Kranstuber, H. A. (2008). Let's Start at the Beginning: The Relationship between Entrance Narratives and Adoptees' Self Concepts [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217370913

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kranstuber, Haley. Let's Start at the Beginning: The Relationship between Entrance Narratives and Adoptees' Self Concepts. 2008. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217370913.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kranstuber, Haley. "Let's Start at the Beginning: The Relationship between Entrance Narratives and Adoptees' Self Concepts." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217370913

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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