Ethnocultural Differences in Role Functioning of the Family System

Abstract

This study was conducted in 2010-2012 years, to examine the role of ethnic and cultural differences in family functioning and its relationship with the subjective satisfaction of the spouses family relationships. The objects of research family of Kazakh and Russian. Sample size - 40 families with different experience of life together. The methodological basis of the study was to system-integrative approach, reflecting the holistic and subjective nature of the object and subject of study. As a method of organizing the study was used comparative analysis. Research methods - the complex social and psychological techniques to study various aspects of role functioning family system: questionnaires, the questionnaire “Diagnosis of family adaptation and cohesion,” the technique “Role expectations and ambitions in Marriage,” questionnaire “marital satisfaction” sociogram Eidemiller. For the processing of the data were used mathematical methods of analysis and processing: two-factor analysis of variance, F-Fisher test, Pearson's coefficient of rank correlations. ConclusionsThe structure of the role functioning of Russian and Kazakh families differ in the degree of traditional egalitarianism (Kazakh families in more traditional roles than Russian families), although a trend towards parity between spouses because of integrative processes that take place at the intersection of traditional (collectivist) and individualistic cultures in a multicultural space of the CIS, including Kazakhstan.And in the Russian and Kazakh families important family decisions in most cases are not made solely head of the family (even though they both have identified the presence of the traditional concept of head of household), and jointly by both spouses. In this role functioning couples Kazakhs due ethnocultural characteristics.Considering the Russian and Kazakh in the continuum of individualism-collectivism, Russian than Kazakh culture are more individualistic and Kazakhs - more collectivist. Orientation difference for themselves and the environment in the view model of conduct causes behaviors Russian and Kazakh general and family relations in particular.