Family Power Structure Research Articles

A Study of the Impact of Social Media on Family Structure Change

With the rapid development of Internet technology, social media has become an indispensable part of modern society. The popularization of social media has profoundly affected all aspects of family life, and traditional family structures and interaction patterns are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The impact of social media on family structure is a complex process, which not only breaks down geographical boundaries to a certain extent and creates opportunities for family members to strengthen their ties with each other, but also reduces the number of face-to-face exchanges to a certain extent, which obviously affects the mode of communication and frequency of interaction of modern families. In such a context, it is of great theoretical and practical importance to study in depth the changing family structure in the era of social media. This study aims to explore and reveal the influence of social media on family power structure, boundary function and emotional identity from different perspectives through the questionnaire method, so as to grasp the law of change of family structure in the era of social media. Through this study, it can be found that the current development of social media plays a role in reshaping and negotiating boundaries, as well as changing and balancing the power structure of Chinese families.

Family power structure and women’s subjective well-being: evidence from China

ABSTRACT Grounded in the identity-behaviour theory, the research examines the relationship between family power structure and married women’s subjective well-being (SWB). Utilizing a sample size of 6,924 from the China Family Panel Studies in 2014, our investigation, employing both the OLS and ordinal logit models, reveals that a wife’s SWB is dependent on her husband’s predominant role in significant family matters. To mitigate potential endogeneity concerns, we apply the instrument variable approach to ensure the robustness of our findings. Our results underscore that this dependence effect is particularly prominent among those women adhering to traditional gender beliefs (i.e. men dominate the outside and women the inside). These outcomes shed light on the prevailing influence of traditional cultural norms on the SWB of married women, thereby furnishing a foundation for government to formulate policies aimed at fostering women’s empowerment.

Gender Violence Suffered by the Daughter-In-Law in the Changing Chinese Family — A Case Study from the Perspective of Family Power Structure

With the development of society, the structure and function of the Chinese family have undergone great changes but gender violence still exists. Through in-depth interviews with two in-laws families, the article describes the gender violence suffered by three daughters-in-law (DILs) within two generations from the 1970s to the 2000s, discovering that despite the nuanced differences in the forms and frequencies of gender violence, three DILs were all at the inferior status in the stem family and were victims of family power inequality. It was revealed that the family power inequality gave rise to gender violence toward the DIL, inducing severe physical or mental injury to the DIL. However, family power inequality was rooted in the traditional gender ideology. The traditional gender ideology originated from the feudal society of China and still pervaded modern society. Consequently, the traditional gender ideology was the rooted cause of the occurrence of gender violence. The article concludes with a reminder of reflecting upon the impacts of the traditional gender ideology on our lives and promoting a new gender consciousness.

Gender Violence Suffered by the Daughter-In-Law in the Changing Chinese Family — A Case Study from the Perspective of Family Power Structure

With the development of society, the structure and function of the Chinese family have undergone great changes but gender violence still exists. Through in-depth interviews with two in-laws families, the article describes the gender violence suffered by three daughters-in-law (DILs) within two generations from the 1970s to the 2000s, discovering that despite the nuanced differences in the forms and frequencies of gender violence, three DILs were all at the inferior status in the stem family and were victims of family power inequality. It was revealed that the family power inequality gave rise to gender violence toward the DIL, inducing severe physical or mental injury to the DIL. However, family power inequality was rooted in the traditional gender ideology. The traditional gender ideology originated from the feudal society of China and still pervaded modern society. Consequently, the traditional gender ideology was the rooted cause of the occurrence of gender violence. The article concludes with a reminder of reflecting upon the impacts of the traditional gender ideology on our lives and promoting a new gender consciousness.

Does ICT change household decision-making power of the left-behind women? A Case from China

With labor migration, patriarchal families in rural China are changing. Furthermore, informatization is altering family, social, and cultural norms and accessibility to relative resources. Gender differences in information technology, however, may precipitate a digital divide and aggravate gender power gaps in families. Rural families in which males migrate to cities for employment, leaving female spouses behind, are common in China. The influence of informatization on the distance in family power structure between male and female members await further exploration. Employing resource and cultural norm theories and the propensity score matching (PSM) method, this study analyzed effects of male spouse migration and ICT (information and communication technology) use on ‘left-behind’ women's household decision-making power. The results showed that having migrant husbands increased household decision-making power of left-behind women and enhanced gender equality in families. Left-behind women's cellular phone use bolstered their household decision-making power, while using computers had no apparent effect. Left-behind women may lack skills to operate computers except for entertainment and socializing. Thus, they do not reap human capital advantages from using them.

Hubungan Gaya Pengasuhan dan Struktur Kekuatan Keluarga dengan Risiko Penyalahgunaan NAPZA: Alkohol pada Remaja di SMA Kecamatan Kalisat Kabupaten Jember (Relationship between Parenting Style, Family Power Structure and Risk of Drug Abuse: Alcohol in Adol

Adolescence is one of population at risk of drug abuse. One kind of drug is alcohol. A family has avery important role in the risk of alcohol abuse in adolescents. A family simultaneously has structureand function which very important for adolescent development. This study aimed to analyze therelationship between parenting style, family power structure and risk of drug abuse: alcohol inadolescents in the high school of Kalisat Sub-district of Jember Regency. The research method wasanalytical observation with cross sectional approach. Respondents were 249 adolescents withmultistage random sampling. Independent variable is parenting style, family power structure; andrisk of drug abuse: alcohol is dependent variable. The data were analyzed by chi square (α = 0,05).The result showed that significant relationship between parenting style and risk of drug abuse:alcohol (p value 0,000); significant relationship between family power structure and risk of drugabuse: alcohol (p value 0,004). Family power can protect adolescents from the risk of alcoholabuse. There are rules must be believed and performed by adolescents. Furthermore, family canperform parenting with balance of freedom and responsibility of adolescents. However, parents shallconsider the personality of their adolescents.Keywords: risk of alcohol abuse, parenting style, family power structure

“INVESTIGATING THE RELATION BETWEEN EDUCATION LEVEL AND FERTILITY IN WOMAN 15-45 YEARS OLD (CASE STUDY OF SHOUSHTAR CITY)”

This study was aimed to investigate the relation between education level and fertility in women 15-45 years old of Shoushtar city. Theoretical principles were used based on their themes in different theory of diffusion and cultural backwardness, Davis and Blake’s theories, the theory of social promotion, economic-social theories, cultural views theories and modernization theory related to this field. Methodology in this research was survey and statistical population of this research was all women 15045 years old in Shoushtar city. And 247 of them have been chosen as a sample and they were studied and it was the study tool. Tool validating was conducted by content and for reliability assessing; Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used[1]. To data analysis, a statistical software SPSS was used and due to the measurement levels, the methods of descriptive statistics such as frequency tables, charts and in inferential statistic, Pearson tests and Spearman and T were used. Results also showed that there is a significant relation between independent variables included the education level of men and women, women’s employment, income, number of children, attitude to the child, family power structure and religious orientation to the dependent variable of fertility.

Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles.

Background:Adolescence denotes a time in which youth begins to experience dangerous behaviors like substance use and delinquency.Objectives:In this study, we investigated the family power structure and identity style in delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles residing in Tehran, Iran.Materials and Methods:To accomplish the goal of the study, 80 adolescent delinquents of the correction and rehabilitation centers aged between 15 and 18 years were selected with convenience sampling method and 80 students of secondary school age between 15 and 18 years in Tehran, Iran in 2012. They answered the instrument of family power structure (Saidian, 2004) and identity style (ISI-6G: White et al. 1998). The obtained data were analyzed using the independent t-test, chi-square test, and Levene’s test.Results:The findings indicated a significant difference between delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles with regard to family power structure, its subscales (P < 0.001), and identity style (P < 0.001). Moreover, the informational identity style was associated with lower levels of delinquency. In addition, a diffuse-evident identity style was related to the delinquency.Conclusions:These results emphasize that the inappropriate decision-making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior and identity style in adolescents. So, family power structure can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescent delinquency.

Comparison between family power structure and the quality of parent-child interaction among the delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents.

Background:Few studies indicate that most behavioral problems are due to family dysfunction and inappropriate family environment. It seems that the family of the delinquent adolescent is unbalanced in the power structure and parenting style.Objectives:The present study compares the family power structure and parent-child relationship quality in delinquent and non-delinquent young subjects in Tehran.Patients and Methods:Eighty students of secondary schools aged between 15 and 18 in Tehran were enrolled with cluster sampling method and 80 delinquent adolescents of the Correction and Rehabilitation Centers aged between 15 and 18 were chosen with a convenience sampling method. They responded to an instrument of family power structure (Child–parents relationship inventory). Data was compared between these two groups by utilizing the independent and dependent t-test and Levene’s test.Results:The findings indicated there is a significant difference between delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents in family power structure and its subscales (P < 0.001) and father-child relationship quality (P < 0.005). Also, there is no statistically significant difference between these two groups in mother-child relationship quality (P < 0.005). Besides, the results revealed that delinquent adolescents were significantly different regarding the quality of parent-child relationship (P < 0.001).Conclusions:These results emphasize that an inappropriate decision making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior in adolescents. The fathers’ parenting is more strongly linked to their sons’ delinquency. So, family power structure and parent-child relationship can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescents’ delinquency.

Decision-Making Influence in the Family: A Comparison of Turkish Families in Germany and in Turkey

In a longitudinal study including 200 Turkish male adolescents from two regions in Germany and 100 in Turkey, power attributions and power discrepancies in decision-making influence between positions in familial dyads were explored. The power attributions were measured by assessing the children’s ratings of their own and their parents influence in decision-making in four main domains: financial issues, children’s affairs and general family decisions. Discrepancy measures were computed for each familial dyad separately (father-mother; father-child; motherchild). Furthermore, the impact of personal resources and normative social attitudes on the attributions were explored. The results show that the family power structure as perceived by male adolescent children are influenced by the cultural context favoring father dominance in Turkish families independent of cultural context. Furthermore, the attributions of decision-making showed a reversed relationship to father’s resource of education. The more educated the father’s the less powerful they were perceived by their sons. With increasing age the sons attributed more power to themselves in Germany but less power to their parents in Turkey. Thus, during adolescent development sons use two different mechanism for reducing power discrepancies between themselves and their parents depending on cultural context. Turkish mothers seem to profit from fathers’ empathetic parenting style in Germany but not in Turkey. The results were interpreted as favoring a nonnative resource theory that takes into account that with some levels of resources, e.g. education, different social normative attitudes are associated; these attitudes may counterbalance a positive linear resource effect.

Some lessons learned about risk reduction after ten years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic

This article reviews some of the key facts concerning HIV risk behavior change the prevention lessons of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic. One of the most important developments over the past 10 years has been the marked increase in knowledge about the AIDS. More people are now aware of the measures for reducing the risk of contracting the disease -- using condoms and avoiding unprotected sex and needle-sharing. Risk reduction however is not determined by knowledge of risk alone. Researchers have identified a number of psychological behavioral and social factors that affect risk reduction. Studies also show that with gay male communities in large cities high-risk behavior has been reduced considerably. Recently however many gay men have relapsed back to unsafe sex. Additionally the studies have focused primarily on gay communities in large cities and have oversampled men who are white older better educated and of higher socioeconomic status than the rest of the gay community. Young non-white socially disadvantaged gay men as well as homosexuals who do not identify with the gay lifestyle stand in need of prevention efforts. While health promotion efforts have succeeded in curbing needle-sharing among intravenous drug users it has been difficult to change this groups sexual risk behavior. But the groups that remain the most impenetrable concerning changes in risk behavior are women and adolescents. Specific intervention approaches for women are not known. Additionally AIDS prevention programs for women often run up against cultural and social issues relating to family power structure. And for adolescents risk-reduction programs remain at an early stage of development.

Influence and Adaptability in Families With Deaf Parents and Hearing Children

This study assessed the influence of individual family members in functional families, primarily to determine whether hearing children of deaf parents have more influence than do hearing children of hearing parents. Eight families with deaf parents and a hearing child and eight all hearing families were videotaped while planning a family meal together. It was found that deaf-parented families share many traits with hearing families. However, there were some differences. The hearing children of deaf parents had a greater number and percentage of their ideas accepted than did the hearing children of hearing parents. Differences were also noted between the deaf fathers and the hearing fathers. The deaf-parented families were more adaptable, as measured by the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale. The observed difference in child influence, in and of itself, is neither good nor bad. Deafness of one family member, in an auditory dependent environment, may require a more flexible family power structure. Professionals assessing deaf-parented families should be sensitive to the special adaptive needs required for healthy functioning of the family.

Rethinking family power.

The family power literature, in its macro-level focus on marital decision making, has emphasized the kind of family power that is generally conferred on men and is based on extrafamilial roles and performance. Women, by virtue of their intrafamilial roles as kinkeepers and nurturers, are more deeply, extensively, and enduringly embedded in the family; yet the power that accrues to them as the lynchpins of family cohesion and socialization has received little attention. A micro-level analysis of family power reveals that women's positions in the family power structure rest not on the horizontal marital tie but rather are derived from the more complex, significant, and dynamic power of the intergenerational bond.

The Protestant Ethic Among Taiwanese College Students

ABSTRACT In an attempt to provide a cross-cultural examination and documentation of the Protestant ethic in an Eastern society, the Mirels-Garrett (1971) scale was administered along with several sociodemographic and attitudinal measures to 700 students in a major university in Taiwan. Results showed that Taiwanese students scored much lower on the Protestant ethic scale than did American students. Among the sociodemographic variables examined, only community origin, standing in school class, and type of parenting were found to be significant. Among the attitudinal measures, authoritarianism and alienation showed a modest correlation with the Protestant ethic, and just-world belief failed to show any correlation. For Taiwanese students, scores on the Protestant ethic scale were not related to age, sex, rural or urban background, socioeconomic status, family power structure, or religious belief or affiliation. The lack of significance of religious variables for the Protestant Ethic scale is interpreted as ...

Family Power Structure: A Cognitive Study

Family Power Structure: A Cognitive Study

Working Daughters in the Hong Kong Chinese Family: Female Filial Piety or A Transformation in the Family Power Structure?

Working Daughters in the Hong Kong Chinese Family: Female Filial Piety or A Transformation in the Family Power Structure?

Comment on "The Study of Family Power Structure: A Review 1960-1969"

theory and her characterization of the experimentalists' view of survey research. My major criticism of Safilios-Rothschild's article is her rejection of the resource theory without appropriate justification. In her discussion of Theories About Family Power Structure she states that e-ducation and occupation cannot be considered as power resources, citing several studies which seem to support her statement (p.547). A close examination of the studies she cites reveals that her conclusion may not be warranted: 1. Michel (1967) data show just the opposite of what Safilios-Rothschild claims. Educated husbands have more decision-making power than uneducated husbands: The observed trend is the same in France and the United States: the higher is the level of husband's education, the higher his family (Michel, 1967:339). mean power scores reported by Michel for husbands with primary, technical, secondary, and college educations are 1.95, 1.96, 2.01, and 2.04, respectively. Similarly, high occupational status husbands were found by Michel to have more decision-making power than low occupational status husbands: The comparative data concerning husband's authority according to his occupation... . follow the same trend in France as in the United States (Michel, 1967:339). Michel reported 1.79, 2.00, 2.00, 2.05, 2.02, and 2.08 as the mean husband authority scores for semi-skilled, skilled, low white-collar, middle white-collar, high white-collar, and professional workers, respectively. 2. Safilios-Rothschild also uses Komarovsky's (1962) data to support her position that education and occupation are not power resources, as shown by the following statement by Safilios-Rothschild: .. . Komarovsky (1967) found that the uneducated and unskilled husbands who earned less money enjoyed more decision-making power than the more educated, skilled and higher wage earners (p. 547). However, a careful reading of Komarovsky reveals that the data may be consistent with the resource theory. data show that education is a power resource, as the following statement by Komarovsky shows:

Answer to Stephen J. Bahr's "Comment on 'The Study of Family Power Structure: A Review 1960-1969'"

The history of science shows that whenever a was formulated, accepted, and satisfactorily used for some time, when finally all the necessary evidence accumulated that showed the inadequacy or powerlessness of the to explain the available data, still the resistance was high. Scientists like to cling to the old, like a child to his blanket. Mr. Bahr should not feel bad for falling in this category, he is in very good company! Theories die hard! Actually, Blood and Wolfe's resource theory (Blood and Wolfe, 1960) has admirably served its function since it stimulated a number of important cross-cultural family studies. As a matter of fact I have been one of

Family and Work

Empirical data from a survey on married women's employment in Denmark are presented indicating the nature and scope of married women's employment as well as an analysis of employment patterns during married life. Furthermore the impact of married women's employment on family life is discussed, specifically the effect on household activities in the family, the division of labour and the family power structure.

Family and Work

Empirical data from a survey on married women's employment in Denmark are presented indicating the nature and scope of married women's employment as well as an analysis of employment patterns during married life. Furthermore the impact of married women's employment on family life is discussed, specifically the effect on household activities in the family, the division of labour and the family power structure.