The Influence of a Marital Relationship and Functional Conditions of Family System on the Uneasiness in Adolescence

Abstract

　　This research targeted adolescents and aimed at investigating from the point of view of a child's recognition into the relevance between a marital relationship or functional conditions of a family system and uneasiness or body symptoms of children.

　　A questionnaire survey was conducted on 234 high school students, and analyzed 218 students (68 males, 150 females, average age 16.7).

　　As for the relevance between a marital relationship and functional conditions of a family system, there is a positive correlation among affectionate parents, conflict settlement and evaluation or cohesion to a family, communication in a family, flexibility of a family system, and rules in a family. As for the relevance between a marital relationship or functional conditions of a family system and a child’s uneasiness, there is a negative correlation between the uneasiness and affection in a couple or conflict settlement. Also there is a negative correlation between the uneasiness and evaluation or cohesion to a family, communication in a family, or flexibility of a family system, and is not a correlation between the uneasiness and rules in a family. Moreover there is a positive correlation between uneasiness and body symptoms.

　　As a result of the study of cause and the effects of relationships, it becomes clear that a marital relationship influences indirectly children’s uneasiness through functional conditions of a family system.