Qualitative Research on Families and Communication

Irmentraud Ertel

Abstract


Qualitative psychological family and communication research is focussed on the investigation of everyday communication of families as social unities. Discussions of "normal families" during everyday routines are videotaped and analyzed differently to answer the question of the development of family system.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs000277

Keywords


Qualitative family research; family culture; communication research; everyday communication; family development; family psychology; family communication style; content analysis; family communication worlds; family verbal interaction; everyday family conversation; video analysis