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- Title
The Relationship between Family Characteristics and Adolescent Perception of the Quality of Family Communication.
- Authors
Feric, Martina
- Abstract
Many studies consider family communication to be one of the most important protective factors for the positive development of children and adolescents in the family environment. This paper aims to clarify whether some characteristics of the family environment influence the quality of family communication in order to provide guidelines for the planning of prevention strategies that effectively improve the quality of family communication and, thus, the positive development of adolescents. Specifically, the aim is to investigate whether there are gender- and age-related differences in the assessment of the quality of family communication and whether there are differences in the assessment of the quality of family communication depending on some family characteristics. High school students from five large Croatian cities (Zagreb, Osijek, Split, Pula, and Varazdin) took part in this study. The quota sample is stratified by three Croatian high school programs, as well as by individual program orientations within each school. The results show that there are differences in assessment of the quality of family communication in relation to gender, age, living with both or one parent, and the educational and working status of the parents. The data suggest that, in addition to the timely implementation of evidence-based parenting and/or family-based prevention interventions, there is a need to invest in high-quality social policies that could lead to a better quality of family life by increasing the chances of higher educational attainment for (future) parents as well as adequate employment opportunities.
- Subjects
CROATIA; STATISTICAL correlation; ADOLESCENT development; PARENTS; SCALE analysis (Psychology); GOVERNMENT policy; CRONBACH'S alpha; RESEARCH funding; SEX distribution; HIGH school students; STATISTICAL sampling; QUESTIONNAIRES; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; RESIDENTIAL patterns; FAMILIES; FAMILY relations; AGE distribution; PARENTING; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; QUALITY of life; COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH; METROPOLITAN areas; DATA analysis software; EDUCATIONAL attainment; EMPLOYMENT; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Adolescents (2673-7051), 2024, Vol 4, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
2673-7051
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/adolescents4010006