What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescents

Specialists working in the field of modern family study and support still have few really useful, well-structured and standardized measurements for their research. D. Olson's FACES, exploring structural family characteristics, is one of the few we can use here. In this article, we aim to apply...

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Main Authors: Grazhina Budinaite, PhD, Maria Zelenskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regional NGO "Association of Family Counselors and Therapists" 2017-05-01
Series:Психология и Психотерапия Семьи
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Online Access:https://familypsychology.ru/translation/balanced-and-unbalanced-families
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description Specialists working in the field of modern family study and support still have few really useful, well-structured and standardized measurements for their research. D. Olson's FACES, exploring structural family characteristics, is one of the few we can use here. In this article, we aim to apply Olson's method to the investigation of families with adolescents in Russia. Standardized norms for this age group were obtained from this study, which also made it possible for us to compare them with 1) norms for other age groups in so-called "balanced" and "unbalanced" families (groups of children of age 3-7 and age 12) 2) with the norms of such groups in other countries – USA, France and South Korea (our main goal). We show that there is a measurable difference in perceiving «real» and «ideal» families as balanced or unbalanced among culturally different groups of adolescents. Standards that we have obtained for Russian adolescents show that their real families, as well as the families they would like to have, are in the zone that may be considered "dysfunctional" in the wider context of world standards. This raises a lot of questions and calls for further investigation.
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spelling doaj.art-17bd786f62294157bfbce9a709f2ef4b2022-12-22T04:25:10ZengRegional NGO "Association of Family Counselors and Therapists"Психология и Психотерапия Семьи2587-67832017-05-0111What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescentsGrazhina Budinaite, PhD0Maria ZelenskayaHSE UniversitySpecialists working in the field of modern family study and support still have few really useful, well-structured and standardized measurements for their research. D. Olson's FACES, exploring structural family characteristics, is one of the few we can use here. In this article, we aim to apply Olson's method to the investigation of families with adolescents in Russia. Standardized norms for this age group were obtained from this study, which also made it possible for us to compare them with 1) norms for other age groups in so-called "balanced" and "unbalanced" families (groups of children of age 3-7 and age 12) 2) with the norms of such groups in other countries – USA, France and South Korea (our main goal). We show that there is a measurable difference in perceiving «real» and «ideal» families as balanced or unbalanced among culturally different groups of adolescents. Standards that we have obtained for Russian adolescents show that their real families, as well as the families they would like to have, are in the zone that may be considered "dysfunctional" in the wider context of world standards. This raises a lot of questions and calls for further investigation.https://familypsychology.ru/translation/balanced-and-unbalanced-familiesolson circular modelstructural characteristics of family systemscultural featuresthe adaptability and cohesion scalesfamily with teenagerfamilies with childrenfunctional – dysfunctional family systemstandards and norms
spellingShingle Grazhina Budinaite, PhD
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What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescents
Психология и Психотерапия Семьи
olson circular model
structural characteristics of family systems
cultural features
the adaptability and cohesion scales
family with teenager
families with children
functional – dysfunctional family system
standards and norms
title What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescents
title_full What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescents
title_fullStr What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescents
title_full_unstemmed What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescents
title_short What are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of Russian adolescents in comparison to American, French, and South Korean families with adolescents
title_sort what are balanced and unbalanced families in the perception of russian adolescents in comparison to american french and south korean families with adolescents
topic olson circular model
structural characteristics of family systems
cultural features
the adaptability and cohesion scales
family with teenager
families with children
functional – dysfunctional family system
standards and norms
url https://familypsychology.ru/translation/balanced-and-unbalanced-families
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