Vem är jag? : En kvalitativ studie om identitetsskapande hos "synligt" adopterade

Sammanfattning: From an Evolutionary psychology point of view focusing on Attachment theory will this essay describe how adopted adults think about their roots. To find an answer to this purpose a several miner questions has been asked: Are their any earlier research according to Evolutionary psychology about internationally adopted? Is it possible to understand the creation of the identity in relation to the Attachment theory? In what way do the adoptees think that their youth has effected their situation of life? And finally, is there any specific time when the adoptees have had even more thoughts about their roots? We have tried to find the answer on these questions through a qualitative study. Questions have been asked to eight internationally adopted adults, in age between 24-33 years. The result from the study makes it even that adopted individuals thoughts about their roots get incensed in some specific periods in life. One period is adolescence, another is parenthood. The adopted told us about specific occasions from their youth when they have had been patronised and negatively treated. The way to define the expression: "search for the roots" also seamed to be very invidual. Some of them told us that they are very curios about their roots, although they are afraid what they might find.