Scholarly and peer reviewed journals on open adoption and psychological effects

I am doing a research paper on the psychological and emotional effects of open adoption vs. closed adoption. I need a few more peer reviewed or scholarly resources and am hoping you can assist me per the referral of my instructor. I have searched in the library but have only come up with a few resources less than 7 years old. Can you please help me?

Answer

Hello Courtney

I tried doing some searches using the search terms below and combining the following databases PsychArticles, Academic Search Premier, Social Science Index Full-Text  and limiting searches to full-text and peer-reviewed. Here is what I found:

Emotional Effects AND Open Adoption  (3 articles)

Psychological Effects AND Open Adoption (8 articles)

I only added one more article when adding three more databases (including Nursing databases)

Psychological Effects AND Closed Adoption (2 articles)

 

If you do not use closed or open adoption and do the searches just using "adoption" like I did below using the same databases and search limitations then this is what you will get:

Psychological Effects AND Adoption then you have 766 articles in full-text

Emotional Effects AND Adoption  then you get 185 articles in full-text. But then you will have to sift them by reading all the abstracts. Hopefully that will help you a great deal with your topic.

 

You might also try searches in Google Scholar for articles that are scholarly and openly available on this topic.

 

If you have any further questions, please do let me know.

Gloria Creed-Dikeogu, Ottawa University, Gangwish Library

 

 

  • Last Updated May 05, 2020
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