We next empirically examined the agreement between birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and adoptive fathers about the level of openness, and the association between openness with satisfaction with the adoption process and with psychosocial adjustment (Ge et al. in press). Prior research has examined openness from either the birth or the adoptive parents' perspective but not from dual perspective using a linked birth parent-adoptive parent sample. The results indicated that birth mothers and adoptive parents were in high agreement as to the level of openness in the adoption (r range — 0.66–0.81). Further, the results of SEM analyses suggested that openness in adoption was significantly related to satisfaction with the adoption process among adoptive mothers, adoptive fathers, birth mothers, and birth fathers. In addition, higher levels of openness were positively associated with birth mothers' and birth fathers' postplacement adjustment as indexed by their self-reports and by the interviewers' impression of birth parent adjustment (Ge et al. in press).
