A Study on the Family Image of High School Students in Sweden:

about its Homogeneity between a Father and a Mother

Abstract

　　The purpose of this study was to investigate about the family image of high school students in Uppsala, Sweden. Subjects included 61 high school students. They were asked to describe the family images through FIT in a group.

　　The main results obtained were as follows.

　　Fifty-four subjects described about their families that were consisted with parents and brothers/sisters. Three subjects described about their families that were consisted with their father or mother and brothers/sisters. Four subjects described about their families that were consisted with their step family's father and mother.

　　Fifty-four subjects had imaged almost the same power toward both a father and a mother as equality; had imaged their parental relationships with intimate; and some of immigrants families had imaged own family as a gathering. Four subjects had imaged toward their father and stepmother or their stepfather and mother whose power were mostly strong and stronger than them; and had imaged their parental relationships with intimate; and had felt more own power with the mothers family.

　　From the results, we found that there were the cultural-specified family structure and the relationships between parents and children regardless of living together or not that were connected with the social policy in Sweden.