1996 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 47-62
The purpose of this study was to research the conception about the healthy family in adolescence.
In the primary research with a sample of 307 college students, three variables of healthy family functioning (positive family views, roles and rules, and problem solving) were found.
In the second research, 42-items of healthy family functioning, the general health questionnaire (GHQ) and figures of family relationships in Schematic Projective Techniques were administered to 75 college students and their fathers and mothers. The major findings were as follows.
(1) There were different between sons’/daughters’ perceptions and parents’ perceptions of healthy family functioning.
(2) In students’ data, correlational analysis revealed that positive family views had significant negative correlation with score of GHQ (child’s mental health). Multiple regression analysis revealed that in figures of family relationships distances among family members’ card (e.g. father-mother, father-child, and mother-child) predicted positive family views and problem solving.
(3) By path-analysis, the direct influence of positive family views and the indirect influence of mental distances among family members on child’s mental health were found. In influence paths, problem solving and positive family views in healthy family functioning acted as parameters.
The implications of these findings for healthy family were discussed.
