Translatability of Family Concepts into the Japanese Culture: Using the Family Environment Scale

Saito, Satoru; Nomura, Naoki; Noguchi, Yuji; Tezuka, B A Ichiro

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1996.00239.x

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“…Intercorrelations among the 10 subscales support the discriminate validity among the scale (Moos & Moos). This measure has been used in a wide range of clinical applications and within various communities (Moos & Moos;Saito et al 1996).…”

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The Association of Family Risk Factors with Suicidality Among Adolescent Primary Care Patients

Miller

McCullough

Johnson³

2012

J Fam Viol

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Recent evidence suggesting that adolescent suicidality has increased over the past decade has emphasized the importance of assessing contributory psychosocial risk factors. This present study has examined the association of family conflict and family cohesion with adolescent suicidality. Data was collected from a multisite sample of 195 adolescent primary care patients using the Family Environment Survey (FES) and the Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSI). Results indicated that family cohesion was significantly and inversely associated with suicidality (r0−.3904, p<.001) and that family conflict was significantly and positively associated with suicidality (r0.3899, p<.001). All (100 %) of the adolescents with BSI scores indicative of elevated risk for suicidal behavior reported above-median levels of family conflict. Reports of suicidality were particularly elevated among adolescents who reported high family conflict and low family cohesion. These findings suggest that it may be important to assess suicidality among adolescents reporting high family conflict and low family cohesion.

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The Association of Family Risk Factors with Suicidality Among Adolescent Primary Care Patients

Miller

McCullough

Johnson³

2012

J Fam Viol

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“…Studies carried out in other countries had already confi rmed that the FES is an effective instrument for detecting differences between functional families and families with problems related to the family environment. 4,20,21 Some authors have adopted the term "clinical families" to refer to those that look for psychological or psychiatric treatment for some kind of disorder in the family system. 1,22 Many studies have emphasized the importance of systematized investigations into the family environment that might serve as a basis for better defi ning what a functional family is, and which factors infl uence this evaluation.…”

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“…17 The discriminant validity and construct validity were evaluated in many studies, and these showed its good capacity to discriminate between families with a functional family environment and those with problems. 4,20,21 The FES can also be used to evaluate the outcomes of interventions; to evaluate the level of adaptation of children and adults to the family environment; and to discriminate within the family environment between groups that differ regarding age, ethnic group and mental health. 2,10,13,19 In other countries, the FES has been used in several recent studies to evaluate the infl uence of the family environment on the psychological characteristics of adolescent children and on psychiatric disorders, including bipolar disorder and alcoholism.…”

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Versão em português da Family Environment Scale: aplicação e validação

2007

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OBJECTIVE: To translate the Family Environment Scale into Portuguese and apply the instrument to validate it. METHODS:The translation was applied to members of Brazilian families with the aim of evaluating its internal consistency and the concordance between members of the same family. One hundred and fi fty-four volunteers living in the city of São Paulo in 2003 who were not receiving any kind of intervention for dealing with family problems were selected. The mean scores in the ten subscales of the instrument were compared between men and women, and between members of the same family. The internal consistency was evaluated by means of Cronbach's alpha. RESULTS:The maximum possible score in each subscale was nine (good family functioning), except in relation to confl ict and control. In most of the subscales, the mean score of the sample studied ranged from 5.1 to 7.6 (men) and 5.4 to 7.7 (women). In the confl ict and control subscales, the means ranged from 1.8 to 4.6 (men) and 1.6 to 4.6 (women). These were similar to scores reported in international studies, except for higher scores in the cohesion and organization subscales, and lower score in the confl ict subscale. There were no statistically signifi cant differences between the scores attained by men and women. The reliability of the scale, evaluated according to Cronbach's alpha, ranged from 0.61 to 0.78 for the ten subscales. CONCLUSIONS:Cultural factors may have infl uenced the results obtained in some of the subscales. The Portuguese version of the Family Environment Scale presented reasonable internal consistency that enables its use for evaluating changes in the family's environment and its functioning and after therapeutic interventions.

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“…Malhotra (1997) has explored the age of marriage in relation to gender in Javanese couples, and Chun and MacDermid (1997) have produced a study on perceptions of family differentiation and individuation among Korean adolescents. Work is being carried out on the applicability of family therapy constructs to Japanese families (Saito et al, 1996) and to Chinese couples (Lewinsohn and Werner, 1997). It has been found that the direct 'translatability' of these constructs is problematic.…”

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Practising family therapy in India: how many people are there in a marital subsystem?

Nath¹,

Craig²

1999

Journal of Family Therapy

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Systemic therapy would appear to be a viable form of treatment for people who exist in cultures that contain complex, extended family systems, such as those found in India. The practice of family therapy in India has evolved from Western concepts. These concepts appear to offer Indian therapists relevant and practical ways of working with families. However, some of these concepts need modifying before they can be used in an Indian context. Indian families may have very different worldviews and ideas of ‘self’ compared to families in the West, leading to different family organization. The situation can be further complicated by the cultural norms of therapists themselves. Therapists in India are often highly educated, come from upper‐middle‐class families and have been exposed to different cultures. They increasingly share many of the values of their counterparts in the West. At the same time, they retain aspects of their own cultural heritage, which is also the dominant culture for a large number of the families with whom they work. Thus, not only must Indian family therapists seek to work in culturally appropriate ways; they must also tolerate their own internalized conflicts regarding differing cultural norms. With the use of clinical data, this paper describes some of the personal and professional problems experienced by an Indian family therapist working with Western constructs of family organization.

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Translatability of Family Concepts into the Japanese Culture: Using the Family Environment Scale

Cited by 24 publications

References 39 publications

The Association of Family Risk Factors with Suicidality Among Adolescent Primary Care Patients

The Association of Family Risk Factors with Suicidality Among Adolescent Primary Care Patients

Versão em português da Family Environment Scale: aplicação e validação

Practising family therapy in India: how many people are there in a marital subsystem?

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