期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：174-180
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：Family-of-origin interventions, particularly the work of Murray Bowen, are well-established in family therapy. Bowen believed that current psychological adjustment and adult relationship patterns were strongly influenced by the family in which one was raised. Bowen theory is one of a relatively few family therapy models that has generated empirically developed measurement tools. The Family-of-Origin Scale (FOS) was developed for adults to retrospectively assess family climate. Early FOS research suggested that the scale was reliable, demonstrated discriminant validity and was correlated with other established instruments assessing family functioning and individual adjustment. The current study extended previous psychometric research through an exploratory examination of the association of the FOS with established scales of both post-formal thought (The Social Paradigm Belief Inventory) and motivation (Academic Motivation Scale) in a sample of 108 predominantly young adults. Results indicated modest associations between the FOS and several theoretically congruent motivational dimensions of the Academic Motivation Scale but did not demonstrate an association with The Social Paradigm Belief Inventory.
