Communication and family education

XXV International Congress of Psychology. Brussels, 1992 July 23-24The objective of this research is to access the relation between family education and communication. The family communication questionnaire (c. f. 88 Musitu et al.) and an acaptation of the Family education Scale was applied to a sample of 424 male and female secaondary school students between the ages of 14 and 18 (EMBU). The same procedures was folowwed with the parent's child-rearing patterns. Once these groups had been obtained the differences between the Family Education Scale factors in both variables were analysed by applying the General linear model and Tukey's test. Firstly, the family education is assigned as dependent variable and the family communication as independent variable. Then, the same process is repeated with the communication as the dependent variable and the parental structure groups as the independent variable. With regards to the results, it is important to emphasize the strong bidirectional relation found between both variables