Original scientific paper
Children's perception of family communication
Marija Lebedina-Manzoni
Tihana Delić
Antonija Žižak
Abstract
This research covered the content, the function ant the types of interpersonal communication in families, and the perception differences among children of different life styles (high school chidren, users of CZSS and users of treatments from specialized institutions for children and youth with bihevioral disorders) were noted.The sample consisted of 953 children up to 18 years of age. The characteristics of family communication were gathered using the standard questionnaire "Communication in the family", by Brajša et.al. Factor analysis isolated 18 factors of the first order and 3 factors of the second order. the discriminative analysis yielded two discriminative functions. these functions inform us about the differences among the three interviewed groups, and are expressed through the subjective experience of the pearson questioned. The fisrt discriminative function shows a forced, ill-willed communication that stresses individuality and the absence of a qualitative interaction between the parents and the child. The second discriminative function shows the existence of formal communication, but lacking true content and quality. The results showed that the interviewed adolescents feel that intra-family communication which includes a feeling of familial unity and understanding is the leadin motivator, whilst the most important risks are insufficient cooperation of the family members and insufficient interest by the family members for the adolescen't needs.
Keywords
communication; family; adolescents
Hrčak ID:
12545
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2001.
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