title: When Assessing Intra-Familial Relationships, Are Sociologists, Psychoanalysts and Psychiatrists Really Considering Different Constructs? An Empirical Study.
abstract: This paper aimed to look for the existence of a common core when envisaging intra-familial interactions as perceived by adolescents, which could be shared by sociology, psychoanalysis and child and adolescent psychiatry. An empirical study based on a mixed-method design collected the responses of 194 adolescents to the instruction "In the next half hour, would you please write as freely as you wish about your relationships in your family, explaining how things are". All answers were then analyzed and 18 dimensions related to 3 different theoretical frameworks were rated blind using numerical scores by two independent raters from each discipline. Inter-rater reliability was good. A parallel analysis evidenced a strong underlying factor explaining a large amount of variance (>50%). This factor is bipolar, it reflects the level of positivity/negativity in the adolescent's point of view concerning his/her intra-familial relationships. A second factor can marginally be considered (10% of the variance). The 2-factor analysis found one factor related to positive feelings and the other to negative feelings. This finding of unidimensionality supports family study as an intervention science.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U669, Université Paris-Sud and Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Falissard
authors.affiliation: INSERM U669, Université Paris-Sud and Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.affiliation: INSERM U669, Université Paris-Sud and Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hassler
authors.affiliation: CERLIS, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Muriel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Letrait
authors.affiliation: CERLIS, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Macher
authors.affiliation: EA 4046, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marty
authors.affiliation: CERLIS, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.affiliation: INSERM U669, Université Paris-Sud and Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Revah-Lévy
authors.affiliation: EA 4046, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.affiliation: CERLIS, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: de Singly
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D036262:Empirical Research; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D012961:Sociology