The purpose of this study was to understand how adolescents` family values were affected by family relation variables perceived by adolescents. The subjects of this study were 600 boy and girl students who attended the second-year high schools in the...
The purpose of this study was to understand how adolescents` family values were affected by family relation variables perceived by adolescents. The subjects of this study were 600 boy and girl students who attended the second-year high schools in the city of Inchon. They were adolescents whose parents were alive, keeping conjugal relationship. The collected data were processed by one-way variance analysis, t-test, and Duncan`s posttest, using SAS program. Cronbach α-value also was calculated to test reliability. The findings of this study were as follows : 1. The adolescents showed most modernistic disposition toward the view of sex role, among family values. Their view of parents had somewhat traditional tendency, compared with their views of marriage, sex role and child. Besides, there appeared a clear distinction between girl students and boy students. Girl students tended to have more modernistic disposition. 2. The parents` socio-demographic variables that gave impact on the adolescents` family values were father`s education and mother`s education for boy students, and mother`s education and mother`s occupation for girl students. 3. The family relations perceived by adolescents had an important effect on their view of marriage and parents. Both of girl and boy students whose family relations were higher in quality had more traditional views of marriage and parents in general.