Functional Illness and Family Functioning: A Comparison of Healthy and Somaticizing Adolescents

This study examined the usefulness of the Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Functioning for discriminating between families of healthy adolescents and families of adolescents with functional somatic complaints. The findings did not support the expected curvilinear relationship between symptomat...

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Published in:Family process 1988-09, Vol.27 (3), p.317-325
Main Authors: WALKER, LYNN S., McLAUGHLIN, F. JOSEPH, GREENE, JOHN W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Family Characteristics
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Models, Psychological
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Sociocultural environment
Somatoform Disorders - diagnosis
Somatoform Disorders - etiology
Somatoform Disorders - psychology
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Summary:This study examined the usefulness of the Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Functioning for discriminating between families of healthy adolescents and families of adolescents with functional somatic complaints. The findings did not support the expected curvilinear relationship between symptomatology and the FACES II family dimensions of cohesion and adaptability. Questions are raised regarding the degree of correspondence between the constructs of enmeshment and rigidity as assessed clinically and as measured by the Circumplex Model.
ISSN:0014-7370
1545-5300
DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1988.00317.x