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Perceived family climate of black adolescents: A function of parental marital status or perceived conflict?
Author(s) -
Dancy Barbara L.,
Handal Paul J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(198007)8:3<208::aid-jcop2290080303>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - family environment scale , psychology , family conflict , social psychology , developmental psychology , scale (ratio) , marital status , demography , population , geography , sociology , cartography
Real and ideal family climate as perceived by Black lower middle SES adolescents from divorced and intact homes was investigated using the Moos Family Environment Scale. Results revealed that perceived family climate was unrelated to paternal marital status, but significantly related to perceived conflict within the home. High conflict was related to less cohesion, less intellectual‐cultural orientation, and less organization than low conflict. Independent of paternal marital status or degree of perceived conflict, adolescents as a group perceived their current family climate as less cohesive, more conflicted, less intellectually oriented and less organized than the ideal family climate.