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. 2015 Jan 29:2:149.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2014.00149. eCollection 2014.

The impact of family intactness on family functioning, parental control, and parent-child relational qualities in a chinese context

Daniel T L Shek  1 , Qiuzhi Xie  2 , Li Lin  2
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The impact of family intactness on family functioning, parental control, and parent-child relational qualities in a chinese context

Daniel T L Shek et al. Front Pediatr. .

Abstract

The current study investigated the differences between intact and non-intact families in family processes, including systematic family functioning, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control, and parent-child relational qualities. The participants were 3,328 Secondary One students, with a mean age of 12.59 years, recruited from 28 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Four validated scales were used to assess family processes. Results showed that adolescents in non-intact families perceived relatively poorer family functioning, lower level of paternal and maternal behavioral control, lower level of paternal psychological control, and poorer parent-child relational qualities than did adolescents in intact families. This generally indicated that family processes were poorer in non-intact families, compared with those in intact families. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed.

Keywords: behavioral control; family functioning; family intactness; parenting process; parent–child relational qualities; psychological control.

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