Abstract
Our aim in this paper is to examine the possibility of the approach that integrates Socion theory's family system approach and whole family system function approach such as FACES (Olson, et. al., 1979). Socion theory's family system approach is the method that figure out family system function based on each family members' perception of affectionate communication "caring" between family members. FACES is the scale that evaluate family system's adaptability and cohesion based on the data of each family member's perception of family system function. The results of our study showed that the integrated approach could be useful to provide basic data for the practical approaches such as clinical family function assessment. And we found that the relationship family members' affectionate communication between family members and whole family system function could he more specifically explained by putting both internal structural variable as gender and external structural variable as social stratification into the analysis of the data. We have to carry out further research based on two-mode three-way data to confirm our findings.
