家庭的意義：大學生的家庭概念調查研究

The Concept and Definition of Family: College Students' Perspective

趙淑珠(Shu-Chu Chao) ； 蔡素妙(Su-Miao Tsai)

《中華輔導學報》 11期 (2002/03) Pp. 167-188

https://doi.org/10.7082/CARGC.200203.0167

摘要

本研究的目的在瞭解現今大學生在時代的變遷中對家庭意義所持的概念為何，以二十所大專院校學生為對象進行問卷調查。問卷內容主要包含三部分：（一）家庭組成要素：如法律契約、血緣關係、感情的投注、傳衍後代等11個類項，請填答者標註出其認為最為重要的前三項排名（二）家庭組成型態：請大學生針對不同的家庭組成型態如傳統的核心家庭、非傳統的同居家庭、離婚家庭、同性戀家庭、單身家庭等19題不同組合的家庭生活型態，主觀回答是否認定其為一個家庭（三）個人基本資料，如性別、年級、科系別等。最後以有效問卷九百三十一份進行資料分析（回收率 92.5%） ，結果發現大學生認為最重要的家庭組成要素為「感情的投注」與「彼此良好的互動性」; 同時對傳統法定婚姻家庭、核心家庭與再婚家庭多一效認同該組成型態可現為一個家庭，而對非傳統家庭組成型態則有較多分歧的看法，如對隔代教養、成年未婚手足共居、外派、假日夫妻、同居有子、老人獨居等家庭組成型態，約有半數以上的填答者同意該組成可稱為一個家庭；而對於如離婚未與子同住、暴力家庭、同居無子、曾同居有子但現在分離、同性戀、外遇、單身獨居或共居等家庭型態，則有不到半數的填答者認同該組成型態是一個家庭。由此結果似可顯現大學生對於非傳統家庭型態的觀點浙趨多元彈性，乃為從事相關教育工作者提供另一正視家庭多元面貌的參考。

關鍵字

家庭概念 ； 家庭組成要素 ； 家庭組成型態

並列摘要

With the increasing divorce rate and single-parent families, the ideal of traditional families have been changed and challenged. In addition, the percentages of people who live single, either after marriage or never-married, have been slowly increased. With all the changes, what does the meaning of the family today? The purpose of this study is to inquire the concept and definition of family for college students. Data were collected from 931 college students in Taiwan, including 39% male and 61% female students. The first part of questions asked the participants to sort the most important three factors, among eleven items, which constituted a family. The results indicate that “emotional involvement”, “quality of interaction in family”, and “responsibility” were the most important factors to be a family. The second part of the question presented nineteen examples which were different types of families, such as families with or without children, cohabitation with or without children, extra-marriage affairs, gay and lesbian families, as well as singles lived along or with friends. The respondents were asked to indicate whether they agree or disagree the examples presented were a family. The results showed that most college students seemed to make the decision by whether the couple in the examples were legally married and with or without children. Sex, different level in college and majors were found significant difference in some examples. Discussions regarding the differences and future research were made, and implications for sex and family education were discussed.

並列關鍵字

Concepts of Family ； Definition of Family ； Meaning of Family ； Varities of Families

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