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Understanding Family Communication Patterns and Family Functioning: The Roles of Conversation Orientation and Conformity Orientation

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The Revised Family Communication Patterns instrument (RFCP) as discussed by the authors is a family typology based on conversation orientation and conformity orientation, and it has been used to measure family communication patterns in the areas of conflict and conflict resolution, speech act production and socialization of children.
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Family communication behavior and family beliefs about how family members should communicate with one another are closely related and combine to create family communication patterns. Two dimensions that determine family communication patterns are conversation orientation and conformity orientation. In this chapter, we discuss theoretical and practical issues relating to these two dimensions and the family typology that is based on them. First, the dimensions are discussed and a resulting family typology is introduced. Then, we discuss the instrument to measure family communication patterns, the Revised Family Communication Patterns instrument (RFCP), and review research that links conversation orientation and conformity orientation and the resulting family types to different behavioral and psychosocial outcomes of family functioning in the areas of conflict and conflict resolution, speech act production, and the socialization of children. Following this discussion, we address a number of methodological co...

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