An Analysis of Family System Related to Problem Behavior

―A comparison between Korea and Japan―

Abstract

　The aims of this paper are first, to compare the tendency of problem behavior between Korea adolescents and Japanese counterparts, second, to compare the family system between Korea and Japan. Then, finally, to analyse the relationship between problem behavior tendency and family system, and examin the difference in the relationship between Korea and Japan.

　The subjects are male and female students in the first and second grades of senior high school and their parents.

　The differences between the two countries revealed in the results are as follows:

　In the tendency of problem behavior, the Korea subjects marked a high tendency of anti-social problem behavior, whereas the Japanese counterparts revealed a high tendency of a-social problem behavior from emotional insecurity.

　In family system Korea subjects showed a preference for the traditional elderly male-centered vertical structure; in contrast, Japanese showed a strong tendency of even structure with a modern nuclear family system. It is then assumed that Korean parents intend to control their children in vertical family system and that the feeling of pressure on the part of children increase the anti-social problem behavior of Korean children. In the case of Japanese in the midst of the transition from the vertical to the even family system, parents are inclined to lose control on their children. Thus, the feeling of solitude on the part of children tend to raise the a-social problem behavior.