West Indian adolescents' perceptions of family functioning.
A total of 424 Barbadians aged 13-15 years completed the Family Functioning in Adolescence Questionnaire, developed in Australia by Roelofse and Middleton (1985). Findings revealed most adolescents, like their Australian peers, reported fairly favourable perceptions of their families. However, neither total nor sub-scale scores served to discriminate between sub-groups based on sex, age or household structure to any great extent. A re-grouping of items based on results of Varimax analysis also failed to yield many significant group differences, although some directions for future research were indicated. Adolescents not living with their fathers seemed to have a somewhat lower sense of personal security, but in other respects did not report their family life any less favourably than did those living with both natural parents.
Faculty of Education, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D001315:Australia; D001460:Barbados; D003142:Communication; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011581:Psychological Tests; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012919:Social Behavior; D012945:Social Values