Perceptions of family communication patterns and the enactment of family rituals

This questionnaire study of 250 university students examined the relationship between perceptions of parent-child communication (as measured by the Revised Family Communication Patterns instrument) and family ritualization (as measured by the Family Ritual Questionnaire), for both Asian-American and Euro-American samples. Family commitment to ritualizing correlated positively with conversation-orientation for both samples and correlated positively with conformity-orientation for the Euro-American sample. In addition, routinization in the enactment of family rituals correlated positively with conformity-orientation for the Euro-American sample.