Abstract:

The family system is one of the complex biopsychosocial systems in which the rules of many orders operate. The family as a system is also a subsystem - part of a more complex system of society and other higher-order macrosystems, and a super-system, that is, a system that includes complex systems - family members. Therefore, the study of the family as a system is a complex poly-aspect process: the family as a subsystem and the supersystem is multi-parametric. Because of the complexity of studying the family as a system, we researched family parameters: the characteristics of the relationships of family members, the vowels and unspoken rules of family life, family myths, family boundaries, family stabilizers, family history, cohesion and flexibility as integrative parameters whose valency can change when movement of the matrimonial dyad of the family system on the continuum of satisfaction with marriage. For the formation of two sample groups, was used the "Marriage satisfaction test". The expressed degree of satisfaction with marriage, high and low, - acts as an independent variable, 38 parameters obtained from the remaining six methods - as dependent variables. Summarizing the data obtained by all methods, short characteristics of the family systems of respondents satisfied and unsatisfied with marriage were compiled, and the statistically significant features of the family system of those satisfied by marriage were identified.

Keywords: family system, marriage satisfaction, functional and dysfunctional family system, satisfaction with marriage as an integrative indicator