Adolescent Attachment: A Social Relations Perspective on Family Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan De Meulenaere ◽  
Lara Stas ◽  
Inge Antrop ◽  
Ann Buysse ◽  
Gilbert M.D. Lemmens
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Adolescent Attachment

MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY RELATIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL FAMILY LAW: METHODOLOGY OF REGULATION

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevhen Tkachenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Law Regulation

As a result of this study, the family law regulation of matrimonial property relations was found to have its specific mechanism which is defined as a single system of legal ways and means providing mainly dispositive legal influence on family relations that allows significant influence of individual self-regulation and restrictions of prohibitions. At the present stage of study, this mechanism is considered as a ‘complex’ phenomenon which has several layers. Therefore, different interpretations of the mechanism for family law regulation of matrimonial property relations, derived at various levels, show not only their distinctive but also their common features. Determination of heterogeneous circumstances affecting the matrimonial property relations requires an analysis of the content and legal regulation of the relations related to property ones, since they are influenced by the mechanism for family law regulation of matrimonial property relations. Therefore, the methodology is the most essential element of this mechanism: it reveals the basic legal principles of family law regulation and directly connects legal tools with the objectively determined needs of social life by using the regulatory functions of law. The structure of the methodology of the mechanism for family law regulation of matrimonial property relations includes permits, prohibitions, instructions, incentives, obligations, sanctions and other ways to influence proper relationships. Methods of family law regulation are determined as methods of legal influence on the relevant social relations. They reflect the essence of a particular legal regime of regulation, while serving as a unifying principle which groups the system of family law and other legal phenomena within the institutions of family law. In this sense, the main methods of legal regulation are the method of subordination and the method of coordination. As a result, it is determined that each family law method reflects a special legal regime of regulation and depends on the formation of a specific set of techniques and means of regulation, among which a special place is occupied by general permits and general prohibitions.

scholarly journals The quality of close relationships in adulthood: the role of sociodemographic and environmental factors

TIMS Acta ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Nikolina Kuruzović
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Parental Marital Status ◽  
The Relationship

In order to better understand the phenomenon of the quality of different types of close relationships of adults, we have investigated several determinants which define them more clearly. We focused on the relational differences of the respondents according to several sociodemographic (age, gender, employment, marital status and children) and environmental factors (structure and relationships in the family). A total of 400 males and females, ranging from 19 to 51 years, completed a general questionnaire. It collected the data related to sociodemographic and environmental characteristics, as well as the Social Relations Network Inventory (NRI), which assessed the quality of five types of close relationships. The results indicate significant differences between the respondents in the quality of individual close relationships, based on the factors of age, gender, employment, marital status and parenthood, as well as according to the factors of the quality of family relations and parental marital status. The identified differences are particularly pronounced in terms of the quality of the relationship with the mother and the quality of the relationship with the friend, which is explained by the characteristic nature of these relationships, as well as the developmental roles and tasks of the adulthood.

scholarly journals Self-concept in overweight adolescents

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Vuk Pisk ◽  
Mate Mihanovic ◽  
Ante Silic ◽  
Anamarija Bogovic ◽  
Vesna Vidovic
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Peer Acceptance ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Average Weight ◽  
Self Image

Background and objective. Adolescence is considered a critical stage of life, and one during which body image and self-concept are of particular importance for peer acceptance and approval. Body weight may impact on satisfaction or dissatisfaction in adolescent girls’ self-concept. The aim of this research was to determine the association between obesity and self-concept among adolescent girls. Methods. The study sample consisted of 40 overweight (BMI 25 - 30) 18-year-old girls in their last year of high school. A further 40 girls of the same age with a BMI of 18 - 25 formed a control group. The Offer Self-Image Questionnaire for Adolescents (OSIQ) was used to evaluate their self-concept. Descriptive statistical methods used in analysing the data included calculation of the median and standard deviation of variables, and t-tests were used to compare group differences, with p<0.05 taken as the level of significance. Results. Statistically significant differences between two groups were found in two components of the OSIQ, sexual attitudes (p=0.044) and psychopathology (p=0.020), but no differences were found in other components such as impulse control, emotional tone, body and self-image, social relations, morals, family relations, mastery of the external world, vocational educational goals and superior adjustment. Conclusion. Our results suggest that overweight adolescent girls are less adjusted with regard to their sexual attitudes and present with more psychopathology as measured by the OSIQ compared with their peers of average weight.

Sibling Cooperation and Scholastic Performance among Vietnamese-American Secondary School Students: An Ethnic Social Relations Theory

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl L. Bankston
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
School Students ◽  
Vietnamese American ◽  
Ethnic Network ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
American Schools ◽  
Using Data

This study examines why some Vietnamese American young people appear to be doing extraordinarily well in school American schools, and how relations within families are related to school achievement. It argues that sibling cooperation is significantly associated with Vietnamese academic achievement, and that cooperation among siblings should be understood as a product of ethnic normative expectations regarding family relations. The study employs ethnographic data from observations and interviews to describe how ethnic social relations may contribute to cooperation within families. Using data from Vietnamese American students in Louisiana public high schools, it finds that family relations, in the form of cooperation among siblings, do make an important contribution to academic achievement, but that cooperative relations within families are sustained by close ties of family members to a surrounding ethnic network.

A Contested Inheritance: The Family and the Law from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-87
Author(s):  
Hannah Callaway
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Family ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines a particularly interesting inheritance case from late-eighteenth-century France to study the intersection of legal practices and Enlightenment ideas at the end of the Old Regime. The case, involving dispute around the estate of a deceased tax farmer, addresses family relations broadly within the specific context of inheritance and spousal assets. The five briefs produced on appeal to the Parlement of Paris show particular engagement with Enlightenment themes of reason, nature, and sentiment. The family was a locus of particular interest in eighteenth-century France because of its implications for social relations and its connection, through inheritance, to royal sovereignty. However, family law has been primarily studied from the perspective of practices, whereas the present article focuses on ideals. The article argues that the courtroom was an important site where the diverse implications of Enlightenment thought on family law were worked out. The argument that family law was a site for integrating ideals into practices has implications for how we think about the relationship between law and social change, as well as, in particular, the relationship between Enlightenment and Revolution.

scholarly journals Personal and socio-demographic characteristics as correlates of value orientations and interests of students in Vojvodina

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Olivera Gajic ◽  
Spomenka Budic ◽  
Biljana Lungulov
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Novi Sad

Social transition and changes in the cultural context inevitably impose the need of redefining the value systems which are particularly reflected through the differences of the multicultural framework such as, for example, Vojvodina. The paper presents the results of a theoretical and empirical study of students? interests and value orientations. The results are viewed through the prism of influence of respondents? individual and socio-demographic characteristics. Non-experimental causal method was used to study the correlation between variable groups. Interviewing was the research technique. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire constructed for the purposes of the research. The study was conducted during the school year 2007/08 in Novi Sad, on the sample of 480 respondents - students of the University of Novi Sad, aged 19 to 24. Gender was studied in the group of personal (individual, constitutional) features and it proved out to be a significant correlate of certain interests: sport, cultural and creative, as well as relational values (nourishing harmonious family relations, marriage, parenthood, partnership, feeling of belonging et al.). In the group of socio-demographic characteristics (structural forms of the family, financial status, social background, socio-cultural space: rural-urban) it was established that social background correlates with interest in sport activities, educational and artistic interests, while variables social background and place of residence correlate with social life and social relations as dominant value orientations. Research results provide pedagogical implications for educational work with youth aimed at developing the values connected with constructive activities and encouragement of proactive orientation with respect to one?s own surroundings and existence, as well as the guidelines for introducing new contents into the existing curricula, in accordance with the expressed values and interests of youth.

Childhood Misfortune and Adult Health in a National Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Lyu ◽  
Stefan Agrigoroaei
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
National Study ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health

This study investigated the relationship between childhood misfortune and 10-year change in health and whether this relationship was mediated by the quality of social relations. We used data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) national longitudinal study, 1995–1996 (Time 1) and 2005–2006 (Time 2). Childhood misfortune was measured at Time 1 using indicators of financial strain, family structure, and abuse. Self-rated physical and mental health indicators were obtained at both occasions. The measure of quality of social relations was based on items relative to social support and social strain from spouse, friends, and family at Time 1. Mediational models showed that a higher level of childhood misfortune was associated with low-quality family relations which in turn tend to account for change in mental health. These findings suggest that childhood misfortune is associated with the quality of social relations, which in turn explain individual changes in mental health in adulthood.

scholarly journals Reciprocity Principle Within Mutual Aid Relations

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01010
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Reutov ◽  
Marina Reutova ◽  
Irina Shavyrina
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Reciprocity Principle ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Resource Transfer

The paper considers the analysis of reciprocity principle in reproduction of social relations and functioning of mutual aid practices within local communities. The reciprocity is considered as the principle of interpersonal and social relations implying clear and latent mutual obligations among participants. The study covers the empirical diagnostics of such parameters as family, friends, neighbors, and professional networks of mutual aid as intensity and regularity of functioning and orientation of resource transfer (receiving/rendering), nature of reciprocity of obligations, motivation of resource interchange. It is shown that children characterize the resource interchange with parents and adults by the highest degree of intensity. At the same time, the majority of participants of such exchanges do not rely on the equivalent volume of reciprocal services, and these interactions are generalized and reciprocal. Towards “weak” links (with neighbors, fellow workers, acquaintances) there is a focus on balanced reciprocity: when receiving help, from 50% to 57% of respondents count on equivalent return. In motivating the mutual aid, the balanced reciprocity is most obviously expressed in professional and neighbor networks of mutual aid. In relations with friends, it is counterbalanced with emotional, valuable and existential motives, which are dominating in family relations. The regulatory importance of the reciprocity principle and its backbone character in various types of networks of mutual aid is justified. At the same time, it is confirmed that the reciprocity in family relations, first of all, has emotional, psychological and valuable background, while in other networks of mutual aid the balanced nature of resource interchange serves a condition of their stability..

scholarly journals Scientific and Theoretical Foundations of the Formation of the Social Environment in the Family

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Ulmasbek Umaralievich Karimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article discusses the scientific and theoretical foundations of the formation of the social environment in the family. It is known that our people have always supposed the family sacred and esteemed family relations. Therefore, the main link in any relationship related to the lifestyle of our people is the family and the social environment in the family. The formation of social relations in the family, the preservation and strengthening of the family, the creation of favorable conditions for the development of a healthy generation requires knowledge from people. Therefore, in studying and strengthening the family, it is necessary to pay special attention to the social relations in the family.

scholarly journals Modernization of Family in Russia and China: the Role of the Government

2020 ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
M. A. Kashina
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Main Trend ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

The individualization of social relations is the main trend in modern society. People do not depend on family and help of its members anymore. They rely on themselves, their individual capabilities and successes. Family modernization is determined by a socio-historical and political-ideological context of a country. It is expressed in a degree to which the family loses its economic functions. The global trend of family nuclearization and fertility decline is manifested differently in Russia and China due to the degree of urbanization, the economic activity of women and the population’s commitment to traditional family values. In order to preserve the birth rate, China began to pursue a neo-familism policy which based on the values of Confucianism. Russia does not have the opportunity to go the same way, because urbanization and modernization of society, started in this country much earlier than in China. The task of stabilizing the population of Russia can be solved only by further modernizing of family relations. It should lead to the creation of an egalitarian (partner) model of the family. At the same time, this does not deprive the Russian state of the opportunity to use the family as a buffer, mitigating for the population the cruelty of the realities of the market economy.

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