Background
: Previous numerous studies proved the reliability and validity of family APGAR score and FACES Ⅲ which are often used in family function test. We performed this study to analyze the correlation between family APGAR score and FACES Ⅲ.

Methods : This study based on the questionnaires answered by 204 unmarried productive part women who were engaged in a manufacturing plant at Ku-mi from August 1st to August 31th, 1992. The results were processed with SPSS statistical package and analysed by mantel-Haenzel trend test.

Results : Male were 87(42.6%) and female were 117(57.4%) and mean age was 23.26(±3.13) years, most of them(198(97.0%)) were high school graduated. There was a significant correlation between APGAR score and family types of FACES Ⅲ (P<0.01). There was a significant correlation between APGAR score and Cohesion of FACES Ⅲ (P<0.001). There was no significant correlation between APGAR socre and Adaptability of FACES Ⅲ.

Conclusion : From this tudy, we found that family APGAR score and FACES Ⅲ has close correlation each other, and this correlation depended on the Cohesion of FACES Ⅲ.