La. Baxter et Cl. Clark, PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION PATTERNS AND THE ENACTMENT OF FAMILY RITUALS, Western journal of communication, 60(3), 1996, pp. 254-268
This questionnaire study of 250 university students examined the relat
ionship between perceptions of parent-child communication (as measured
by the Revised Family Communication Patterns instrument) and family r
itualization (as measured by the Family Ritual Questionnaire), for bot
h Asian-American and Euro-American samples. Family commitment to ritua
lizing correlated positively with conversation-orientation for both sa
mples and correlated positively with conformity-orientation for the Eu
ro-American sample. In addition, routinization in the enactment of fam
ily rituals correlated positively with conformity-orientation for the
Euro-American sample.