FAMILY

 

1. How much does each of the following people go out of their way to do things to make your life easier for you: father, mother, brothers and sisters, grandparents, children, friends.

2. How easy is it for you to talk with each of the following people: father, mother, children, brothers and sisters, grandparents, friends.

3. How much can the people mentioned in questions 1 and 2 be relied on when things get tough at work or at school?

4. How much are they willing to listen to your own personal problems?

5. If you could change one thing about the dynamics in family relations, what would it be? (e.g. time spent together, communication style, rules...)

6. Which is the person in your family who has had the greatest influence on you?

7. Which of these conditions is closest to those that prevailed in your home?

· More or less total confusion with everyone doing more or less what they wanted, making as much noise as they liked.

· A certain amount of noise and confusion, but periods of quiet and discipline at certain regular times, for example mealtimes.

· Periods of order which slid into confusion until brought together by a burst of parental discipline.

· A quiet disciplined house. Everybody let off steam elsewhere.

8. Which of the following is closest to the situation in your house as far as watching the television was concerned?

· The TV set was on the whole time whether people were watching it or not.

· TV viewing was confined to a few programmes each day and those programmes were specifically selected.

· There was no TV in the house.