Family Interaction: The Expressway to Permanency

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma M. Ginter ◽  
Diana Stafford ◽  
William Stein
Keyword(s):  
Family Interaction

Discourse Analysis and Family Interaction

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Dell Hymes
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Family Interaction

Family Interaction and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Emerging Adults: A Mediation Model of Gratitude

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110006
Author(s):  
Kelly Ka Lai Lam ◽  
Wei-Wen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Family Interaction ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Healthy Family

In this study, we investigated the relations between family interaction, gratitude, and depressive symptoms among Chinese emerging adults. It also investigated gratitude as a mediator in the relation between family interaction and depression. Data were obtained from 321 college students who completed the online questionnaire about the Family Assessment Instrument, Gratitude Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire, and demographic information. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test hypotheses and bootstrapping with 5,000 resamplings (95% confidence interval) was used to confirm the mediation model. Results showed that gratitude partially mediated the relation between family interaction and depression. In other words, students with healthy family interaction, as indicated by perceived better family communication, mutuality, and harmony with family members, tended to report higher general gratitude, and subsequently diminished depressive symptoms. The practical implications were discussed.

Regulatory comments as tools of family socialization: A comparison of Estonian, Swedish and Finnish mealtime interaction

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 655-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIIA TULVISTE ◽  
LUULE MIZERA ◽  
BOEL DE GEER ◽  
MARJA-TERTTU TRYGGVASON
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Family Interaction ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
Family Socialization ◽  
Conversational Partner ◽  
Moral Rules ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts ◽  
Family Mealtimes

The present study's aim is to pinpoint the characteristics of verbal socialization in family interaction in five different sociocultural contexts. Families with early adolescent children (M = 11.5 years) were compared with regard to regulatory comments issued during family mealtimes. Three monocultural groups consisted of 20 Estonian, 20 Swedish, and 20 Finnish families living in their countries of origin; two bicultural and bilingual groups consisted of 20 Estonian and 20 Finnish families residing in Sweden. Regulatory comments were defined as utterances aimed at influencing the conversational partner to behave according to social and conversational rules. Contrary to expectations, cultural differences were not found in discussions dealing with table manners and conversational rules, but the number of comments on perceived violations of moral rules was much greater in the Swedish material. Swedish early adolescents commented significantly more than their Estonian and Finnish counterparts, indicating more asymmetrical communication in Estonian and Finnish families.

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