Abstract
This is an attempt made in July 1967 to ascertain the correlation between the degree of companionship and the interaction in the family. School-children in the 6th grade of primary school in Fukushima-city were picked out as the samples. This first report is concerned with their companionship in the family relations.
The results are as follows :
1. The boys' and girls' scores of companionship are different from each other ; the girls' score is higher.
2. The difference between the groups of nuclear family and extended family is not significant.
3. The difference between groups classified by family occupation is significant. Arranged from highest to lowest : white collar workers, self-management enterprisers, blue collar workers and part-time farmers.
4. The difference between two groups of children, one with job-holding mothers and the other with mothers who do not hold jobs, does not seem to exist in each group. Only in rural areas where very many mothers hold jobs, the scores of the two groups are significantly different.
