Family psychological study on Family SALAD Model

― Examination of relation between four types of Family SALAD Model and Misumiʼs PM theory ―

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between Family SALAD Model and the PM theory. Based on the work of Kurt Lewin and Friedrich A. Hayek, Family SALAD Model was originally invented by Onodera (2017) .

Subjects were 221 healthy under-graduates who had given the questionnaire composed of Family SALAD Model Scale and family PM Scale etc. and answered it.

As a result of the statistical analysis, it was shown that there were significant correlations between Family SALAD Model and the family PM Scale. For instance, it was shown that spontaneous order family system were positively correlated to democratic family system, P scale and M scale of family PM Scale and negatively correlated to autocracy family system and anarchy family system.

This study suggests that Family SALAD Model might have potential benefits of examining family climate or family system empirically.