The Study of Family Dysfunction and it's Effecting Factors in Paveh City

Family is one of them which has lost some of its functions and has transformed to dysfunctional family. Dysfunctional family means families which cannot meet its members needs, borders of members are unclear and so co-working and support does not occur. The aim of this study is exploring effecting factors on family dysfunction. These factors include: family structure, type of socialization, individualism and family incongruence. The method was survey and data was gathered by researcher designed questionnaire. Parents were interviewed for this reason. Population of study was all Paveh city families. Sample size was estimated 258 people by Cochran formula. Sampling method was multi-stage clustering. Results show that the more is the gap between two generations in family, the more is family incongruence and then dysfunction. Family inconvenience expectations and lack of differentiation among parents’ roles have significant and inverse relation with family incongruence. Both two types of socialization (lax and strict) have negative effect on family and increases individualism and incongruence