Gretchen Miller Wrobel

Biographic Data

ID5716115
NAMEGretchen Miller Wrobel
GIVEN NAMESGretchen Miller
FAMILY NAMEWrobel
SIGNATUREWROBEL G M
AFFILIATIONSBethel College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS99
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX7

  • Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood

    Open AccessAlbert Y H Lo, Harold D Grotevant et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Experiences of contact between adopted persons and birth family members have implications for psychological adjustment of adopted persons. The current study utilizes four contact trajectory groups, spanning from middle childhood to young adulthood and encompassing three aspects of birth family contact in predicting psychological adjustment and adoption-related outcomes in adopted young adults. Data come from a longitudinal study of adoptive famil…

  • Minding the (Information) Gap

    Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D GrotevantARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2018Cited by: 9References: 5

    The formation of an adoption information gap was examined for a group of 169 emerging adults (M= 25.0 years) who were adopted as infants. Participants completed interviews and questionnaires at adolescence and emerging adulthood (late teens to 20's). The Adoption Curiosity Pathway model guided research questions about formation of an adoption information gap, which exists when there is a difference between what an adopted person knows and what he…

  • Adoptees’ Contact With Birth Relatives in Emerging Adulthood

    Open AccessRachel H Farr, Holly A Grant‐Marsney et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research2013Cited by: 7References: 4

    While openness in adoption has become more common in the United States, little research has examined contact between birth and adoptive families as adoptees become adults. Using quantitative and qualitative data from 167 emerging adult adoptees, factors characterizing contact (e.g., type, frequency, with whom), satisfaction with contact, and the influences of transitional events and significant relationships were explored. Among these variables, …

  • The Role of Adoption Communicative Openness in Information Seeking Among Adoptees From Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood

    Brooke Alison Skinner-Drawz, Gretchen Miller Wrobel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Communication2011Cited by: 3References: 15

    Adoption Communicative Openness was examined as a predictor of information seeking from adolescence to emerging adulthood in a group of adoptees who did not have direct contact with birth relatives during adolescence. Changes in information seeking intentions and behaviors between adolescence and emerging adulthood were also examined. Data from 119 infant-placed adoptees and their adoptive mothers were used from Waves 2 (1996-2000) and 3 (2005-20…

  • Many Faces of Openness in Adoption

    Harold D Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel et al.ARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2007Cited by: 18References: 8

    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 sample included families with no contact, stopped contact, contact without meetings, and contact with face-to-face meetings between the adolescent and birth mother. Openness arrangements were dynamic, and different openness a…

  • Adolescent Search for Birthparents

    Open AccessGretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D Grotevant et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research2004Cited by: 11

    The decision to search for birthparents is one that all adopted persons consider. The focus of this study is to describe, for a group of adopted adolescents, who chooses to search and who does not and to explore how search behavior is related to the functioning of the adolescents’adoptive families and adolescents’psychological adjustment. Participants in the study included 93 adolescents whose contact with birthparents ranged from no contact or i…

  • Moving Forward

    Gretchen Miller WrobelARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2003

  • The Family Adoption Communication (FAC) Model

    Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Julie K Kohler et al.ARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2003Cited by: 30References: 8

    Presented is a theoretical model explaining how family communication about adoption evolves over time. Based on data from a national longitudinal study of the effects of openness in adoption (Grotevant & McRoy, 1998), the Family Adoption Communication (FAC) model describes the dynamic processes inherent in adoption-related communication and uses a contextual perspective that considers the developmental needs of children to explain the discrepanci…

  • Contact in Adoption

    Open AccessGretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D Grotevant et al.ARTICLEAdoption & Fostering2003Cited by: 10References: 3

    Contact in adoption is a complex issue that adoption professionals frequently negotiate. Today most adoption placements include an initial plan for contact that in many instances changes over time. By understanding contact as an issue that presents itself over the course of an adopted person's lifetime, the complexities it brings to the adoption experience can be seen. Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D Grotevant, Jerica Berge, Tai Mendenhall and R…

  • The Emergence of Psychosocial Engagement in Adopted Adolescents

    Open AccessHarold D Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research2001Cited by: 11References: 2

    Psychosocial engagement of adopted adolescents was examined as a function of longitudinal patterns of stability and change in parents’ perceptions of the compatibility of the child within the family.Psychosocial engagement involves the adolescent’s active use of his or her inner resources to interact positively with others in family, peer, and community contexts.Participants included 177 adoptive families who were interviewed when the target chil…