A Study on Adolescents'' Perception towards Family Relationships in Immigrant Families in Kaohsiung

• Main Authors: Sheng-mei Huang, 黃勝美
• Other Authors: Hsüeh-hwa Chuang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11761979739064516678

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 教育研究所 === 101 === Abstract This study intends to understand the current status of junior high school students’ perception of family relationship from new immigrant families in Kaohsiung area, and to explore the difference in them with various background variables and the correlation between different aspects for family relationship. This study adopts「Mixed Research」, and uses junior high school students from new immigrant families in Kaohsiung area as the object of questionnaire survey, and applies the Descriptive Statistics, Independent-Samples t-Test, One-way ANOVA and Pearson Product-moment Correlation to carry out the data analysis. The interviewees are junior high school students from new immigrant families in a certain junior high school in Kaohsiung area. After integrating these quantitative and qualitative results of analysis, this study carries out the comparison and verification, and the results are as follows: 1. Among family relationship perceived by junior high school students from new immigrant families, they have the best perception of「Mother Attachment」for the parent-child attachment; but a poor perception of 「supportive and cooperation」for the co-parenting. 2. Among the parent-child attachment perceived by junior high school students from new immigrant families, the「Father Attachment」tends towards middle; only the「Safety Empathy」tends towards a poor perception, and their fathers have less time to accompany children than mothers significantly. 3. Among junior high school students from new immigrant families, a significant difference exists among their perception of parents’「Marital Conflict」 and the sub-aspects「Supportive and Cooperation」and 「Critique and Resistance」 of co-parenting, and the sub-aspects「Mother Attachment」 and「Father Attachment」 of parent-child attachment. 4. Among junior high school students from new immigrant families with different socioeconomic statuses, a significant difference exists among their perception of parents’「Marital conflict」 and the 「Mother Attachment」 of parent-child attachment: They thought that money is the main reason of their parents’ marital conflict. 5. Among junior high school students from new immigrant families with different family structures, a significant difference exists among their perception of parents’「Marital Conflict」, and 「Supportive and Cooperation」 and 「Critique and Resistance」of co-parenting. 6. New immigrant and single-parent families are able to run a good family relationship. 7. Among junior high school students from new immigrant families with different degrees of understanding about their mothers’ nationality and native culture, a significant difference exists among their perception of「supportive and cooperation」of parental co-parenting; the「Mother Attachment 」 and 「Sibling Relationship」of parent-child attachment. 8. Among junior high school students from new immigrant families with different sexes, a significant difference exists in their perception of the sibling relationship, where girls’ sibling relationship will be higher than boys’ sibling relationship. In conclusion, based on the research results this study proposed relevant suggestions as the reference for new immigrant families, schools, family education personnel and follow-up researches.