Peer-reviewed article
THE FAMILY WELL-BEING: A DYADIC ANALYSIS OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP QUALITY
Yohanes Budiarto, Fransisca Iriani Roesmala Dewi, Rahmah Hastuti ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study examined how the quality of parent-child relationships affects the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of family members in Indonesia. Researchers surveyed 230 families (fathers, mothers, and children) using questionnaires about relationship quality and mental health. The findings showed that the quality of the father-child relationship influenced the well-being of both the father and child themselves, but the mother-child relationship did not show similar effects. The study suggests that fathers and adolescents play an important role in their own well-being.
Key points
- Father-child relationship quality showed an actor effect, where better relationships were associated with improved well-being in both the father and child
- Mother-child relationship quality did not show significant actor or partner effects on family well-being
- No cross-partner effects were found, meaning one person's perception of relationship quality did not directly influence another family member's well-being
- The study used dyadic analysis to examine bidirectional relationships between parents and children
- The research highlights the vital role of fathers and adolescents in their own well-being
Limitations
The study is cross-sectional and cannot establish causality or explain why father-child relationships but not mother-child relationships influenced well-being. The research does not explain the mechanisms underlying these differences or provide information about the age range of children studied.
Abstract
The family's emotional psychological and social well-being is influenced by how parent-child relations quality is perceived by each other, both of the child and father, as well as the child and the mother. This study focused on the dyadic analysis of parent-child quality relationships prediction on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of the family members in Indonesia. The study involved 230 dyads comprised of fathers, mothers, and children who completed the Revised Parent-Child Interaction Questionnaire measuring the parent-child relationship quality and the Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF) to measure family well-being. Adopting the actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) and structural equation modeling (SEM) as the statistics technique, the results showed that in general, no partner’s effect was found. To be specific, dyadic relations between father and child showed an actor’s effect influencing their well-being. On the other hand, the dyadic relations between child and mother showed neither the actor’s effect nor the partner’s effect on their well-being. The study highlights the vital role of fathers and adolescents in their own well-being.