The purpose of this study was to develop a program for family functioning and investigate its effects.
The hypothesis in this study was as follows:
First, 1. A Program for Family Functioning will increase total family function of the University Stu...
The purpose of this study was to develop a program for family functioning and investigate its effects.
The hypothesis in this study was as follows:
First, 1. A Program for Family Functioning will increase total family function of the University Students
Second, A Program for Family Functioning will increase part of sub-factors in family function. It will increase family's communication and emotion within training group.
The subjects of the program were randomly alloted to training group and control group. Each group consisted of 11 university students. The participants of the training group experienced the program for a total of 11 sessions(22hours).
The measurement instrument used in this study developed by Jeong, Seong-Ran and Kim, Seong-Hoi was the family functioning assessment scale. A pretest before the program and a posttest immediately after the program were administered to examine the effects of the new Family Functioning Program. A follow - up test was administered after 4 weeks to examine the durability of the of the effects of the program.
Analysis of variance(ANOVA) was conducted using the new Family Functioning Program as the independent variable and total scores of family functioning and the scores of sub-factors (family communication and family emotion) as the dependent variables. And when it revealed interaction (group-time) effects, inter-temporal (pretest, posttest, and follow-up test) individual comparison was made using Turkey's HSD. The program used for data analysis was SPSS for Windows and the statistical significance level for hypothesis testing was set at .05.
The conclusion of this study through the several experiments and discussion are as follows :
First, A Program for Family Functioning increase total family function of the University Students.
Second, A Program for Family Functioning increase part of the sub-factors in family function by increase the family's communication and emotion in the training group.