Université de Fribourg

Associations between measures of emotion and familial dynamics in normative families with adolescents

Vandeleur, Caroline L. ; Perrez, Meinrad ; Schoebi, Dominik

In: Swiss Journal of Psychology, 2007, vol. 66, no. 1, p. 5-16

The Family Life Scale (FLS), which includes the dimensions of Cohesion, Adaptability, Communication and Satisfaction, and two measures of emotion were applied to a German-speaking sample of adolescents and their parents in Switzerland. The main goal of the study was to assess the associations between the measures in order to increase our understanding of the dynamics involving emotional and...