scholarly journals FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND SELF-SILENCING OF STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Ivana Janković ◽  
Jelisaveta Todorović ◽  
Violeta Arnaudova
Keyword(s):  
Family Functioning ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Circumplex Model ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Faces Iv ◽  
Healthy Family ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
Leadership And Organization

Starting from the main hypothesis of the Circumplex Model that the balanced levels of cohesion and flexibility are the most appropriate for family functioning, and that unbalanced levels of cohesion and flexibility are related to problematic family functioning, in this paper we wanted to investigate in what way these dimensions of family functioning are related to self-silencing. In this model, cohesion is defined as an emotional relationship between family members, and flexibility is defined as a quality and expression of leadership and organization. Self-silencing is related to the cognitive schema of creating and maintaining intimate relations in a way that a person is passive, that he/she suppresses his/her feelings, opinion and actions in order to satisfy the needs of people close to them.The research was conducted on a sample of 250 Serbian and Macedonian students. The following instruments were used in this research: Silencing the Self Scale and FACES IV, which consists of three scales that measure Cohesion (Disengaged, Balanced Cohesion and Enmeshed), three scales that measure Flexibility (Rigid, Balanced Flexibility and Chaotic), Scale for the Assessment of Family Communication, which is defined as the skill of positive communication and it is considered to be a mitigating dimension and it helps families change their levels of cohesion and flexibility, and the Scale for the Assessment of Family Satisfaction.Self-silencing is in a positive correlation with unbalanced levels of cohesion, with disengaged family relations (r=.195, p=.002) and with enmeshed (entangled) family relations (r=.332, p=.000). Self-silencing is in a positive correlation with Unbalanced levels of flexibility, with rigid (r=.243, p=.000) and chaotic family relations (r=.217, p=.001).Balanced Cohesion, as the indicator of healthy family functioning, is related to a lower level of self-silencing of family members, that is, in such families the members can openly speak about their needs, feelings and opinions without fear that it would jeopardize the needs of other family members. The members of families with a very low or very high cohesion and flexibility conceal their needs and desires in order to satisfy the needs of other members.

scholarly journals Family emotional expressiveness and family structure

Psihologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-333
Author(s):  
Sonja Cotar-Konrad
Keyword(s):  
Family Functioning ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Emotional Expressiveness ◽  
Circumplex Model ◽  
Family Counselling ◽  
Faces Iv ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Family Emotional Expressiveness

The present paper scrutinizes the relationship between family emotional expressiveness (i.e., the tendency to express dominant and/or submissive positive and negative emotions) and components of family structure as proposed in Olson?s Circumplex model (i.e., cohesion and flexibility, family communication, and satisfaction) in families with adolescents. The study was conducted on a sample of 514 Slovenian adolescents, who filled out two questionnaires: the Slovenian version of Family Emotional Expressiveness - FEQ and FACES IV. The results revealed that all four basic dimensions of family functioning were significantly associated with higher/more frequent expressions of positive submissive emotions, as well as with lower/less frequent expressions of negative dominant emotions. Moreover, expressions of negative submissive emotions explained a small, but significant amount of variance in three out of four family functioning variables (satisfaction, flexibility, and communication). The importance of particular aspects of emotional expressiveness for family cohesion, flexibility, communication, and satisfaction is discussed, and the relevance of present findings for family counselling is outlined.

scholarly journals PATTERNS OF FAMILY FUNCTIONING AS PREDICTORS OF PARENTING STYLE AMONG THE LEFT-BEHIND FAMILIES OF GULF MIGRANTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 540-547
Author(s):  
Shameer V ◽  
Joseph I. Injodey
Keyword(s):  
Family Functioning ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Circumplex Model ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Faces Iv ◽  
Authoritative Parenting Style ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting Style

Understanding the family functioning of left-behind families of gulf migrants and how they relate to parenting style is critically important to social workers worldwide. The study examined the associations between family functioning patterns and mothers parenting styles among the left-behind families of gulf migrants. The circumplex model of family functioning put forwarded by David H. Olson served as the study’s theoretical framework. Family Adaptation and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES IV) (Olson, FACES IV and the Circumplex Model: Validation Study, 2011) was used for testing family functioning, and the Parenting Style and Dimension Questionnaire (Robinson, Mandleco, Olson, & Hart, 2001) was used for testing the parenting style and its dimensions. The study’s main findings suggest that balanced cohesion and flexibility correlate with the authoritative parenting style. It also revealed that the authoritarian parenting style correlates negatively with all the functional family functioning patterns: balanced cohesion and flexibility. Authoritarian parenting style correlates positively with all the dysfunctional patterns of family functioning also. While, permissive parenting style correlates positively only with balanced cohesion, disengaged, enmeshed, family communication, and family satisfaction dimension of family functioning. This benchmark study offers family social work practitioners information to assist families and contribute to family social policies. KEYWORDS: family functioning, parenting style, left-behind families.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Growth Curve Trajectories of Family Dynamics after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8508
Author(s):  
Grace B. McKee ◽  
Laiene Olabarrieta-Landa ◽  
Paula K. Pérez-Delgadillo ◽  
Ricardo Valdivia-Tangarife ◽  
Teresita Villaseñor-Cabrera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Growth Curve ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Large Hospital ◽  
Pediatric Tbi

Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a serious public health concern. Family members are often caregivers for children with TBI, which can result in a significant strain on familial relationships. Research is needed to examine aspects of family functioning in the context of recovery post-TBI, especially in Latin America, where cultural norms may reinforce caregiving by family members, but where resources for these caregivers may be scarce. This study examined caregiver-reported family satisfaction, communication, cohesion, and flexibility at three time points in the year post-injury for 46 families of a child with TBI in comparison to healthy control families. Families experiencing pediatric TBI were recruited from a large hospital in Guadalajara, Mexico, while healthy controls were recruited from a local educational center. Results from multilevel growth curve models demonstrated that caregivers of children with a TBI reported significantly worse family functioning than controls at each assessment. Families experiencing pediatric TBI were unable to attain the level of functioning of controls during the time span studied, suggesting that these families are likely to experience long-term disruptions in family functioning. The current study highlights the need for family-level intervention programs to target functioning for families affected by pediatric TBI who are at risk for difficulties within a rehabilitation context.

scholarly journals Understanding Burnout in Indian Housewives Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charvi Pareek ◽  
Nandani Agarwal ◽  
Yash Jain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 Pandemic has brought the world underwaters. All over the world, people were affected. The focus during this period was mostly on patients and frontline workers, with some attention also towards working adults. One cohort that has not gained much light during this pandemic is of housewives. Housewives had to manage household chores along with managing family relations – especially in India, where societal expectations lie on the female to provide family members with care and manage the household. Dealing with uncertainty, decreased availability of personal space, increased presence of and interaction with people in the household due to work from home scenarios, shifting to the online world and adapting to the change, economic disturbances, absence of domestic help, managing parental responsibility, increased stress about one’s own and family members’ health and lack of social interaction have contributed to their inconvenience. Existing evidence supports that housewives have been experiencing burnout in their homes. This qualitative study was conducted to see how the added pressure of COVID – 19 and social isolation has affected housewives mentally, leading to burnout. This narrative study includes participants of Indian origin, between the ages of 34 to 50 years. Participants were shortlisted on the basis of their scores obtained on the COVID-19 Burnout Scale, designed by Murat Yıldırım and Fatma Solmaz. The themes generated through this research study are related to understanding the impact of burnout on the mental health of housewives along the areas of physical health, financial well-being, digitization, uncertainty regarding COVID-19, parental responsibilities, social & emotional health, relationship management, and coping mechanisms. The findings of this study suggest that the mental health of housewives has significantly worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic due to constant exposure to certain stressors.

scholarly journals Digital leisure and perceived family functioning in youth of upper Secondary Education

Comunicar ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (50) ◽  
pp. 99-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
María-Ángeles Valdemoros-San-Emeterio ◽  
Eva Sanz-Arazuri ◽  
Ana Ponce-de-León-Elizondo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Faces Iv ◽  
Funcionamiento Familiar ◽  
The Relationship

The «Network Society» is identified by accelerated changes that occur between real and virtual worlds. The progress of digital devices has generated a new model of leisure that it has conditioned family interactions. The aim of this research was to identify the relationship between digital leisure experiences and perceived family functioning in post-compulsory secondary education Spanish students. The sample was composed of 1,764 Spanish young people 15-18 years old; all of them were post-compulsory secondary education students. Students’ digital leisure activities were measured by an opening question by which they indicated the three most important leisure activities for them, and family functioning was measured by the answers from the Spanish adaptation for FACES IV questionnaire (Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale). A descriptive analysis about digital leisure activities of young people was used. The family functioning coefficient of each subject was determined and, finally, the relationship between students’ family functioning perceived and students’ digital leisure practices assessed by a factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA). Young people give importance to digital leisure activities, highlighting social network participation, playing videogames and browsing the Internet. Cohesion, flexibility and family functioning are healthier when children don´t point to any digital activity into their preferred leisure practices. The results suggest that new research should be conducted to confirm whether this negative association between family functioning and digital leisure is causal or due to other factors. La «Sociedad Red» se identifica con acelerados cambios que se suceden entre el mundo real y el virtual. El progreso de dispositivos digitales ha generado un nuevo modelo de ocio que ha condicionado las interacciones familiares. El objetivo de esta investigación fue valorar la relación entre el funcionamiento familiar percibido por estudiantes españoles de educación secundaria postobligatoria y su práctica de ocio digital. La muestra ascendió a 1.764 estudiantes. El ocio digital se midió a partir de una pregunta abierta en la que debían señalar las tres actividades de ocio más importantes, y el funcionamiento familiar se valoró mediante la versión española del FACES IV (Escala de cohesión y adaptación familiar). Se realizó un análisis descriptivo sobre las actividades de ocio digital de los jóvenes, se determinó el coeficiente del funcionamiento familiar de cada sujeto y mediante análisis de varianza (ANOVA) de un factor se valoró la relación entre el funcionamiento familiar percibido por los estudiantes y las actividades de ocio digital practicadas por los mismos. Los jóvenes otorgan importancia a las actividades digitales de ocio, destacando la participación en redes sociales, jugar a videojuegos y navegar por Internet. La cohesión, la flexibilidad y el funcionamiento familiar gozan de mejor salud cuando los hijos no apuntan actividades digitales entre sus prácticas preferentes de ocio. Los resultados sugieren nuevas investigaciones que comprueben si esta asociación negativa entre funcionamiento familiar y ocio digital es causal o se debe a otros factores.

scholarly journals MENGUPAYAKAN PENJAGAAN TIDAK FORMAL MERENTAS GENDER: EMPOWERING INFORMAL CARE GIVERS ACROSS GENDER

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Mohd. Suhaimi Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Informal Care ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Care Giving

<div class="WordSection1"><p><em>In many traditional societies, women play an important role  as informal caregiver. They take care of small children, family members who are disabled, old and frail.  They perform their role within the private family sphere without much complaints. However when many women enter labour force outside their family many of them can no longer become family care giver. The  seperation between nuclear familes and extended families due to rural urban migration makes older women like mothers and mothers in-law can no longer available to provide help. As an alternative, many urban families opt for domestic help to look after their young children, disabled family members and the elderly.  Domestic helpers continue their domestic chores as instructed by the lady of the house an at the same time perform caregiving role. The important issue  related to having domestic maid to perform care giving role especially in Muslim family is regarding physical contact.  Most of the activities in caregiving roles involves physical contact especially during cleaning patients body, changing their clothes, prepare their bed, feeding them, holding their hands and body for therapy. However Islamic paractice do not allow physical contact like touching between two people who are not close family relations or mahram.  Since most of domestic maid who also perform the role as caregiver are women, therefore the issue of empowering men to become caregiver is very important  because the needs of male caregivers to care for male patients is increasing. Based onwhat is stated in the Quran and hadith and related documents, this paper will outline the need for informal care in families and communities that need to be addressed, particularly those who are Syariah-compliant. Cases from research in the relevant field will be presented to highlight the issues why men should be encourage to consider role as informal caregivers.</em><em></em></p><p>Dalam banyak masyarakat tradisional, perempuan memainkan peran penting sebagai pengasuh informal. Mereka merawat anak-anak kecil, anggota keluarga yang cacat, tua dan lemah. Mereka melakukan peran mereka dalam ruang keluarga pribadi tanpa banyak keluhan. Namun ketika banyak perempuan memasuki angkatan kerja di luar keluarga mereka, banyak dari mereka tidak bisa lagi menjadi pemberi perawatan keluarga. Pemisahan antara keluarga inti nuklir dan keluarga besar karena migrasi perkotaan pedesaan membuat perempuan yang lebih tua seperti ibu dan ibu mertua tidak lagi dapat menyediakan bantuan. Sebagai alternatif, banyak keluarga perkotaan memilih bantuan rumah tangga untuk menjaga anak-anak mereka, anggota keluarga yang cacat dan orang tua. Pembantu rumah tangga melanjutkan pekerjaan rumah tangga mereka seperti yang diperintahkan oleh nyonya rumah dan pada saat yang sama melakukan peran pengasuhan. Masalah penting terkait dengan memiliki pembantu rumah tangga untuk melakukan peran memberi perawatan terutama dalam keluarga Muslim adalah tentang kontak fisik. Sebagian besar kegiatan dalam peran pengasuhan melibatkan kontak fisik terutama selama membersihkan tubuh pasien, mengganti pakaian, menyiapkan tempat tidur, memberi makan, memegang tangan dan tubuh untuk terapi. Namun paraktek Islam tidak mengizinkan kontak fisik seperti menyentuh antara dua orang yang tidak memiliki hubungan keluarga atau mahram. Karena sebagian besar pembantu rumah tangga yang juga berperan sebagai pengasuh adalah perempuan, maka masalah pemberdayaan laki-laki untuk menjadi pengasuh sangat penting karena kebutuhan pengasuh laki-laki untuk merawat pasien laki-laki semakin meningkat. Berdasarkan apa yang dinyatakan dalam Al-Quran dan hadits dan dokumen terkait, makalah ini akan menguraikan kebutuhan untuk perawatan informal dalam keluarga dan masyarakat yang perlu ditangani, terutama mereka yang mematuhi Syariah. Kasus-kasus dari penelitian di bidang yang relevan akan disajikan untuk menyoroti masalah mengapa laki-laki harus didorong untuk mempertimbangkan peran sebagai pengasuh informal.</p></div><p align="left"> <strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> gender, informal care giver, care giving, family.</em></p>

Changing the Family, by Warren M. Brodey, M.D. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. (23 East 67th Street, New York, New York 10021), 1968, 160 pp., $6.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-648
Author(s):  
Graham B. Blaine
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Individual Growth ◽  
Main Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
The Family ◽  
Healthy Family ◽  
Family Living

This is a disorganized book, but I think it is purposely so. Dr. Brodey states at one point that the family therapist's main role is that of example, and the style of this volume is an example of the freedom of expression which the author feels is essential to healthy family living. Dr. Brodey believes that traditions and stereotypes destroy families and cause illness in family members. He emphasizes the importance of the here and now over the past and stresses the value of evolvement and constant change to adapt to changing circumstances and to individual growth.

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