Family Functioning with Personal Wellbeing in boys and girls high school students

Faegheh Karimi, Eghbal Zarei

Abstract


This study entitled of relationship between family functioning with personal wellbeing in boys and girls high school students of Bandar Abbas. The method used in this research is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population consisted of 386 subjects were selected with multi-stage stratified random sampling method proportionate to the size, among high school students in Bandar Abbas. The instrument used in this study, are two standard questionnaires:  1. Family Assessment Device (FAD), 2.  Personal Wellbeing Index School Children (PWI-SC). For the analysis of research findings Pearson correlation and multiple regressions linear were used. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between the families function components with Personal Wellbeing in boys and girls high school students in Bandar Abbas and family assessment is a suitable predictive for measurement the Personal wellbeing of  students.

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