家族システムの機能状態が子どもの学校適応感に与える影響に関する一研究

抄録

　　The problems of school maladjustment, such as school refusal have been increasing in number. However, little has been done to solve these problems. The first step to understand school maladjustment is to identify the factors influencing the students’ perception of how well they adjust to the school environment.

　　In our study, the Family Assessment Inventory was administered to 267 junior highschool students and their fathers and mothers. In addition, the School Environment Adjustment Scale was administered to the students. The data were analyzed using covariance structure analysis to examine the two hypotheses about the relationship between each family member’s perception of family function and the students’ perception of school adjustment. The following two hypotheses were tested: 1) The parents’ perception of family function with respect to familial communication, satisfaction and cohesion affect the child’s perception of family functioning consisting of the same three variables that are linear relationship with children’s perception of school adjustment; 2) The parents’ perception of the family flexibility and family rules has an influence on the childrens’ perception of the same two variables that, at the same time, have a parabolic relationship with the children’s perception of school adjustment. The pathmodel based on the first hypothesis was supported by the satisfactory goodness of fit with the covariance matrix. As for the second hypothesis, the observed variables and the latent variables showed a good match, However, the covariance structure as a whole did not fit well with the hypothesized model.

　　The present study clarified the relationship between the perception of family function and school adjustment.