TY  - JOUR
T1  - Child’s Vision of Family
AU - Golubeva, Elena V. AU - Golubeva, IrinaV. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 28
SP  - 6781
EP  - 6788
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.6781.6788
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6781.6788
KW  - Perception
KW  -family
KW  -single-parent family
KW  -two-parent family
KW  -junior schoolchildren
AB  - The study presents the results of investigation of how junior schoolchildren from two-parent and
single-parent families perceive family. 95 junior schoolchildren from two-parent and single-parent families,
pupils of 2nd-4th grades of Russian secondary schools were examined. The investigation technique was free
association experiment. It was found that, with age, children from two-parent families had fewer associations
with "family", while children from single-parent families, on the contrary, had more associations with "family".
There were also qualitative differences in the associations given by children. With age, children described the
relations between family members differently, from "friendship" to "love", ceased to mention "self" among
family members, increasingly used generalized categories ("kin", "relatives"). The impact of two-parent or
single-parent family is that children from two-parent families used mostly to just name family members, while
children from single-parent families mostly responded with concepts describing relations and union between
family members.
ER  -