Abstract

RABINOVICH, Elaine Pedreira; FRANCO, Anamélia Lins e Silva  and  MOREIRA, Lúcia Vaz de Campos. Comprehension of the meaning of family by university students from Bahia. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.1, pp. 260-273. ISSN 1808-4281.

To complement a quantitative study about family roles, 170 university students from Bahia answered an open questionnaire about composition, definition and ideal family. The answers to these questions were organized into categories by content analysis. The main results pointed to a change from family defined as a secure base (59,1%) to an ideal conception of family related to harmonic conviviality (52,3%). 10 categories were given as to family composition (extended, 45,2%; nuclear: 22,0%,; extended + friends: 10,7%; amplified: 6,5%; monoparental amplified: 5,9%; monoparental: 4,2% ; others). The main conclusion was that the ideal family portrait pointed to a movement to a more horizontal and less authoritarian family than the traditional Brazilian family.

Keywords : Family; horizontality; family composition; Bahia.

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