2009 年 23 巻 2 号 p. 91-109
The purpose of this article was to study linkage with family structure, social power, family stress and family satisfaction from Adolescent's perspective. Family structure was classified by dyadic cohesion (father-mother, father-adolescent, mother-adolescent). These variables were evaluated by adolescent and social power based on referent power, expert power, legitimate power, reward power, coercive power, and attraction power.
The subjects were 348 male and 256 female university students, high school students, and junior high school students. They completed questionnaire. The results that (1) the scores of referentexpert power, family satisfaction were high and the scores of reward-coercive power, family stress were low when the father-mother cohesion score was high, and (2) university students showed lower scores of reward-coercive power than high school students and junior high school students, and (3) referent-expert power was related to family structure but reward-coercive power was not. This study suggests different property of social power in adolescent family structure.