The purpose of this study was to identify whether there were relations among family-of-origin experiences, marital intimacies, and parent-child relations perceived by married people, and what influences family-of-origin experiences had on marital inti...
The purpose of this study was to identify whether there were relations among family-of-origin experiences, marital intimacies, and parent-child relations perceived by married people, and what influences family-of-origin experiences had on marital intimacies, and parent-child relations.
This study collected data by allotting in advance regions, genders, and the first-born child's school levels and so using the self-reported questionnaire method over the subjects of 480 persons. Family-of-origin experiences were composed of family-of-origin’s health, parents' marital satisfaction, parents' care, and parents' overprotection. Parent-child relations were composed of child care and child overprotection.
The results of this study were as follows.
First, there was no difference according to genders except parents' overprotection. Parents' overprotection showed differences according to genders. Marital intimacies showed no difference according to ages, the first-born child's school levels, education levels, income levels, and occupations. Child care showed no difference according to the first-born child's school levels. Child overprotection showed no difference according to all the socio-demographic variables.
Secondly, there were positively correlated with family-of-origin health, parents' marital satisfaction, and parents' care, but were negatively correlated with parents' overprotection. Among parent-child relations, child care was positively correlated with family-of-origin health, parents' marital satisfaction, and parents' care, but were negatively correlated with parents' overprotection. Child overprotection was negatively correlated with family-of-origin health and parents' care, but were positively correlated with parents' overprotection. In the correlations between marital intimacies and parent-child relations, marital intimacies were positively correlated with child care, but were negatively correlated with child overprotection.
Thirdly, according to the results of analyzing the influence of family-of-origin experiences on marital intimacies, when married people's education level and monthly income level were high and the first-born children were elementary school students rather than middle and high school students and family-of-origin health was high, marital intimacies were high. The variable, which had the greatest influence on marital intimacies, was family-of-origin health. Next, according to the results of analyzing the influence of family-of-origin experiences and marital intimacies on parent-child relations, when the first-born children were elementary school students rather than middle and high school students and family-of-origin health was high and parents' care was high and marital intimacies were high, child care was high.
Finally, when family-of-origin health was high, marital intimacies were high. And marital intimacies influenced parent-child relations. And the relation between parents influenced parent-child relations. Synthetically, this study contributed to revealing the importance of the present family relation which will become the future family-of-origin experiences for children and so will influence their marital relations and parent-child relations, and providing the information for transmitting healthy family-of-origin experiences. Also, family members were interrelated and influenced one another, so that this study supported family system theory.