A Study of Figures of Family Relationships V : Comparisons of the Real Family Figures among Family Members of Families with High School Students

埼玉県越谷市The purpose of this study was (1) to compare the real family figures among family members (fathers, mothers and high school students), and (2) to investigate the relationships between the distances among family members on the real family figures and the family communication based on the data of parents. The subjects were 93 high school students and their parents. They were administered the following tests; the figures of family relationships which was one of the forms of Schematic Projective Techniques (SPT), and the self-reported family communication scale. When the distances among each family member were near on the real family figure of high school students, the real family figures of parents were similar to the figures of their children. Therefore, the results suggest that fathers, mothers and their children in high school similarly recognize the family relationships. The Correlational analysis revealed the scores of positive family communication had the significant negative correlations with the distances of father-mother and father-child. These results suggest that the relationships of marital and father-child affect the cognition of family relationships