A Measuring family function from a systematic perspective

Abstract

The present study aims to build a scale that accurately determines the family’s functional and  dysfunctional level, through the family members’ awareness of the  nature of relationships and roles , which are governed by a set of explicit and implicit rules, that determine how, when, and with whom individuals deal; going from the systemic perspective, which derives its most important characteristics from the general systematization theory, this latter assumes that the person who suffers in the family (le patient désigné) is a symptom of dysfunction of the family function, therefore , the treatment is given to the family not to the patient only. Aiming atbuilding the scale, we relied on the exploratory factor analysis, to extract the factors and determine the dimensions. Then we relied on the confirmatory factor analysis, in order to achieve the design of a scale to measure the perception of the family function with good indicators of good conformity; starting with the RMSEA square root indicator, which is considered one of the most important and accurate indicators of conformity, it equals = 0.05, which reflects an acceptable conformity, as it did not exceed the confidence limits; the indicator of the degree of freedom of the chi-square (χ2/df) is good = 1.83 as well , this value indicates an exact conformity; Also, the Comparative Conformity Indicator CFI = 0.81.