Parenting attitudes, foster parenting attitudes, and motivations of adoptive and nonadoptive foster parent trainees
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1997
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Gillis-Arnold, Renee Elizabeth
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Crase, Sedahlia Jasper
Stockdale, Dahlia F.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes and motivations of adoptive and nonadoptive foster parent trainees toward parenting and foster parenting. Data collected on survey questionnaires included sociodemographic characteristics, attitudes toward parenting, attitudes toward foster parenting, and motivations for entering the foster care system. Subjects included 44 adoptive female participants and 149 fostering or nonadoptive female trainees. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) revealed significant differences between the adoptive and nonadoptive trainees in parenting attitudes, foster parenting attitudes, and motivations for foster parenting. Univariate analyses revealed that nonadoptive trainees differed from adoptive trainees on all four dimensions of parenting attitudes and on two dimensions of foster parenting attitudes. Lastly, univariate analyses indicated that nonadoptive trainees differed from adoptive trainees on five motivations.
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