Perceptions Of Family Relations Research Articles

Interrelation between subjective assessment of mental state and perception of family relations by relatives caring for patients with addiction

The addictive disorder often becomes a difficult experience for the all family. Studying the factors influencing the level of psychological distress of addicted patients’ relatives is necessary to create an effective system of psychological assistance for them.Purpose: to reveal the interrelations between the subjective assessment of the mental state and the perception of family relationships among relatives of patients with pathological gambling (PG) and relatives of patients with stimulant use disorder (SUD).Materials and methods. In a cross-sectional study 100 and 41 patients’ relatives were included in the PG and SUD groups respectively. The Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) and the Family Environment Scale (FES) was used as an assessment tools. Socio-demographic and clinical data were also collected.Results. The analysis of interrelations between the severity of psychopathological symptoms and the perception of family relationships in the studied groups determined both general and specific correlations. In both groups there are multiple negative correlations between the majority of SCL-90-R scales and the “Cohesion” scale (FES). The specific interrelations included, for example, multidirectional correlations between the “Expressiveness” scale (FES) and psychopathological symptoms scales of the SCL-90-R. Increased expressiveness in the PG group was associated with less severity of psychopathological symptoms and level of distress, and, on the contrary, a greater severity of psychological distress in respondents of the SUD group. Analysis of the correlations in PG compared to SUD showed greater predictability of the connections between psychopathological symptoms and perception of family relationships in the PG group. Thus, the indicators of psychopathological symptoms and psychological distress are negatively associated with parameters reflecting the perception of family cohesion, trust in intrafamily relations, social activity and family organization and, at the same time, have positive interrelations with the indicator of conflict in family relationships.Conclusion. The perception of the family cohesion function as the intrapsychic protection that facilitate the relatives’ adaptation in the emerging life situation, regardless of the form of patients’ addiction.

Parent-child language differences and ethnolinguistic minority children’s evaluations of family life

ABSTRACT Within ethnolinguistic minority families, parents and children often differ in language usage and proficiencies. In this study, we investigate the role of intergenerational language differences in cultivating and/or complicating family relations and how aspects of gender may moderate these relationships. Guided by the Family Language Policy framework, we expand the concept of intergenerational language differences beyond language use and proficiencies to incorporate language attitudes and language management indicators. Binomial logistic regression models were used to estimate the likelihood of children (N = 823; aged 10–12) reporting high levels of family friction and cohesion. Our results show that parent-child differences in language use and proficiencies are associated with family friction but not with cohesion, whereas differences in language attitudes impact family cohesion. Brokering has a significant negative impact on perceptions of family relations while language rules are not related to conflict or cohesion. Our interaction analyses suggest that the influence of parent-child language differences on family relations is more pronounced for the father-daughter dyad.

Psychological mistreatment by married children in Korea: using the contextual theory to explain mistreatment of aging parents and parents-in-law

ABSTRACT Guided by the contextual theory of elder mistreatment, this study examined the psychological mistreatment (PM) of aging parents and parents-in-law by their married children and compared the risk factors of PM. We used nationally representative data on the adverse experiences of Korean adults in 2017 (n=2,974). Results showed similarities and differences in the PM of aging parents and parents-in-law. Common risk factors included children’s sex, greater victimization experiences, and co-residence. Daughters and daughters-in-law were more likely than their male counterparts to psychologically mistreat parents and parents-in-law. While parents’ PM was more frequent when children had a temporary work status and when parents were younger, PM of parents-in-law occurred more often when children had a full-time job, poor self-rated health, and a negative perception of family relations. These findings provide insights into policy intervention against PM, suggesting the need for complex prevention strategies for PM of aging parents and parents-in-law.

Examination of Adolescents' Perceptions of Family Relations According to Various Variables

Bu araştırma lise çağındaki ergenlerin aile ilişkilerini algılamalarının cinsiyet, sınıf düzeyi, anne-baba birliktelik durumu ve anne-baba öğrenim durumu değişkenlerine göre farklılık gösterip göstermediğini belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubu 2018-2019 eğitim öğretim yılında, Isparta ilinin Merkez ilçesindeki ortaöğretim kurumlarında öğrenim gören 359 öğrenciden (194 kadın ve 165 erkek) oluşmaktadır. Çalışma grubunun yaş ortalaması 15.38’dir. Araştırmada veri toplama araçları olarak; öğrencilere ilişkin demografik bilgilerin elde edildiği kişisel bilgi formu ve Aile Değerlendirme Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde frekans, yüzde, aritmetik ortalama ve standart sapmanın yanı sıra ergenlerin aile içi ilişkiyi algılayışlarının, demografik değişkenlere göre farklılaşıp farklılaşmadığını belirlemek için bağımsız gruplar t-testi ile tek yönlü varyans analizi kullanılmış olup, farklılıkların kaynağını test etmek için ise Tukey ve Hochberg’s GT2 testlerinden yararlanılmıştır. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre ergenlerin aile içi ilişkileri algılayışları, cinsiyet değişenine göre roller, duygusal tepki verebilme, gereken ilgiyi gösterme ve davranış kontrolü alt boyutlarında; anne-baba birliktelik durumu değişkenine göre ise duygusal tepki verebilme ve genel işlevler alt boyutlarında anlamlı farklılık göstermiştir. Ergenlerin aile içi ilişkileri algılayışları, sınıf düzeyi ve anne-baba öğrenim durumu değişkenlerine göre anlamlı farklılık göstermemiştir. Çalışma bulguları ilgili alanyazın ışığında tartışılmıştır.

Correlates of school bullying victimization among Black/White biracial adolescents: Are they similar to their monoracial Black and White peers?

AbstractGuided by the social‐ecological perspective, we examined familial, peer, and school‐related predictors of bullying victimization among a large sample of U.S. White, Black, and biracial adolescents. Data were drawn from the Health Behavior in School‐aged Children study, drawn from adolescents who self‐identified as White, Black, or biracial. Of the total sample, 3211 were White, 1188 were Black, and 175 were biracial. Adolescents completed measures of bullying victimization, perceptions of family relations, peer relationships, and school connectedness. Biracial students reported more bullying victimization than White and Black students. For biracial adolescents, family affluence off, and negative perceptions of other students were both found to be positively associated with victimization. For Whites, age, difficulty in talking with parents, parents sometimes like me to make my own decision, parents almost never like me to make my own decisions were negatively associated with victimization. On the other hand, talking with friends and negative perceptions of other students were positively associated with victimization. Among Blacks, age, and parents who almost never like me to make my own decisions were negatively associated with victimization. However, a parent who is almost never loving was positively associated with victimization. Implications for future research and school‐based practice are provided.

CROSS-CULTURAL LITERATURE AND CULTURAL REPRODUCTION: THE CASE OF THE KOREAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY HANJUNGNOK

This paper is an investigation how cultural perception could be embedded in language and literature and how this helps different analyses on a same historical event. The article includes the comparison between a work of classical Korean literature, Hanjungnok (한중록), and an English-translated version of it, The Memoirs of Lady Hyekyŏng, translated by Kim-Haboush, and a work of a British novel, The Red Queen, written by Margaret Drabble. The comparison is to explore the language use regarding a perception of family relations and of gender in each version of writing. This paper concludes that authors’ and audience’s language and cultural background would influence on perceiving and analysing literature and its context so that each interpretation could be differentiated, even with the actual historical event.

Percepcja relacji rodzinnych a depresyjność młodzieży z rodzin o różnym typie

Wstęp: Celem pracy było określenie związku pomiędzy percepcją relacji rodzinnych a nasileniem depresyjności u młodzieży w okresie późnej adolescencji z uwzględnieniem typu rodziny, wktórej się wychowują.Materiały i metody: W badaniu uczestniczyło 120 uczniów szkół ponadgimnazjalnych w wieku 17–20 lat, pochodzących z rodzin pełnych oraz niepełnych. Wykorzystane narzędzia badawcze obejmowały ankietę socjodemograficzną, kwestionariusz relacji rodzinnych autorstwa Plopy oraz skalę depresji Becka.Wyniki: Przeprowadzone analizy statystyczne potwierdziły istnienie różnic pomiędzy młodzieżą z rodzin pełnych a młodzieżą z rodzin niepełnych w zakresie percepcji wybranych relacji rodzinnych (komunikacji, spójności, autonomii i tożsamości) oraz nasilenia depresyjności. Potwierdzono również istnienie ujemnych związków pomiędzy tymi zmiennymi wśród młodzieży z obu typu rodzin, za wyjątkiem wymiaru tożsamości w grupie adolescentów z rodzin niepełnych.Wnioski: Percepcja relacji rodzinnych jest korzystniejsza u adolescentów z rodzin pełnych, którzy są mniej depresyjni niż ich rówieśnicy z rodzin niepełnych. W obu grupach niskiej jakości komunikacji, spójności i autonomii rodzinnej towarzyszy większe nasilenie objawów depresyjnych. Wnioski te pozostają spójne z koncepcją uznającą właściwości środowiska rodzinnego zaznaczący czynnik ochronny lub sprzyjający powstawaniu depresji młodzieńczej oraz mogą znaleźć zastosowanie praktyczne podczas konstruowania programów profilaktycznych ipsychoedukacyjnych skoncentrowanych na propagowaniu prawidłowych relacji w systemie rodzinnym, szczególnie o typie niepełnym.

Family Relations and Language Maintenance: Implications for Language Educational Policies

This paper reports a study examining the relationship between family relations and language maintenance, and the implications of this association for language educational policy. We explored patterns of language maintenance and perceptions of family relations among 180 adolescents from families that immigrated to Israel from the former USSR. Findings indicate that language maintenance in the second generation is associated with harmonious family relations and so with the immigrants’ well-being. There was no impact of family type on linguistic patterns or on family relations. The findings are discussed in light of their implications for language policy, suggesting an additional and significant reason for promoting language maintenance among second-generation immigrants.

AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN SENIOR SETTINGS: ON THE NEED FOR EDUCATING GRANDPARENTS

The study reported in this paper examined perception of family relations by African-American elders. Data were collected from 39 participants in senior settings using the Grandparents Strengths and Needs Inventory to identify favorable qualities and areas for further improvement. Participants also were interviewed for common themes. Grandparents rated themselves favorably on satisfaction, overall success, and teaching. They assigned themselves high scores for coping with difficulty and managing frustration and identified information needs as the least favorable rating. Greater satisfaction and ability to manage frustration correlated with a more favorably perceived rating of personal health. Recommendations are given to enhance grandparent influence through educational programs.

The Bene‐Anthony Family Relations Test revisited: Directions in the assessment of children's perceptions of family relations

The Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test is designed to assess the child's perception of family relations using projective techniques. This article describes the test and background to its development. The validity of the test is limited by the content of some items and their categorization, though there is evidence that the test can distinguish between populations that differ on other related variables. A survey of professionals who use the test is described. Despite their enthusiasm for it, the majority of respondents had modified the test in some way, and 86% regularly rephrased at least one item from the test. There were several criticisms of the test, including the positive scoring of 'sexualized items'. The respondents were also inconsistent in their administration and scoring of the test. This test is used less frequently in research, possibly because it is not perceived as a sufficiently robust psychometric instrument. However, there is a danger of 'throwing away the baby with the bath water'. Recommendations are made for the development of a test that reliably assesses the child's perception of the emotional content of relations.

A prospective study of familial and social influences on girls' body image and dieting

This study examines the emergence of body image concerns and dieting behaviors in early adolescence as a function of girls' perceptions of family relationships, maternal modeling of dieting behaviors and body image concerns, and familial and peer pressures to diet. Self-report measures were obtained from 77 White girls and their mothers in early adolescence (mean age = 12.3 years) and 1 year later. Girls' perceptions of family relations and mothers' perceptions of daughters' weight at Time 1 significantly predicted girls' dieting behavior 1 year later over and above Time 1 dieting and body image. Only girls' previous body image and dieting behaviors significantly predicted more body dissatisfaction 1 year later. Girls' body image was found to mediate the relationship between family relations and dieting at Time 1 assessment, but not over time. The importance of implementing early prevention and interventions programs is discussed.

Incest Family Dynamics:

A self-administered questionnaire study in a self-help group for incest families focused on individual family members'perceptions of their interrelationships before and after participation in therapy. The results show that perceptions of the same relationships varied greatly among family members. Before therapy, the father-daughter relationship received the most divergent ratings,with fathers rating it as extremely good and daughters as extremely bad. The mother-daughter relationship was seen as the most neutral by all family members. After therapy, while the parents improved their perceptions of family relations, daughters (victims) continued to rate them as bad. It is suggested that the emphasis on teaching victims to externalize the blame in order to diminish unjust shame in effect means shifting the blame to the father (the offender), which again serves to maintain stressful family relations for the daughters in these families. The clinical implications of this dilemma are discussed.

Comparison of couples' adjustment to lumpectomy and mastectomy

The personality and family relations as well as the adjustment of 32 postlumpectomy women was compared to 32 postmastectomy women matched in terms of age and education, as well as time since the operation and postoperative treatment. Whenever possible the husbands were also included in the study. There were practically no differences on any of the adjustment measures between the two groups of women and the two groups of husbands. Some differences were found between the postlumpectomy and the postmastectomy groups in their perception of family relations. The expected differences in terms of personality were not found.

Parents' Predictions of Their Children's Perceptions of Family Relations

Thirty children from 15 families were administered the Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test. Their parents then assigned test responses as they imagined their children had. With only two exceptions, both involving first born boys, parents predicted their children's responses beyond chance expectation. However, significant discrepancies were found between children's responses and their parents' predictions. Parents tended to overestimate their own centrality in the family perceptions of their children, particularly perceptions involving negative feelings, and to underestimate children's negative feelings involving their siblings.