A study to find out the Family Function and its Resources in 3rd grade boys high school students was performed in a Kang-dong district high school from september 5th 1988 to september 12th 1988.
A questionnaire, that of Smilkstein(1978), and sociodemographic factors that may influence their family function were given to 213 students and following results were obtained.
1. The total number of participants were 189 students.
2. Mean Family APGAR was 5.3 points revealing moderately dysfunctional.
3. According to dicision by family APGAR score, 51 students(27.0%) were included in 0-3 point group (severe dysfunctional), 77 students (40.7%) were included in 4-6 point group (moderately dysfunctional), 61 students(32.3%) were included in 7-10 point(healthy family functional).
4. Family APGAR score was statistically higher when students had their own study room, students had frequent verbal communication with their parents, they had no suffering patients in their family, theri parents had warm attitude of breeding them, they share their thoughts before decision making, good at schooling.
Through these results one can conclde that in order to increase Family APGAR score, their parents should have frequent verbal communication, need warm attitude toward breeding their children, should discuss about family matter, provide their own study room. In a situation, where most students are on psychological stress, their parents should bear in mind above factors to admitt psychological safety to their children. And further studies involving female students and other factors should be needed in the future.
