Jakość komunikacji w relacjach rodzice-dziecko w rodzinach emigracyjnych
Quality of Communication in Parent-Child Relationships in Emigrant Families

Summary/Abstract: The article shows how children from families experiencing economic emigration (parents/parents, the whole family with the child) perceive communication with their parents. Communication, in addition to cohesion and flexibility, isthe third dimension of the family in The Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems by David Olson and is an important resource in the family in which changes occur in response to the emergence of a crisis. Such a situation may be a separation of the child from the parent/parents or departure to a foreign country. The analysisis based on the results of the study, which involved 320 primary and lower secondary school students (170 girls and 150 boys, mean age 13.73). The quality of communication in parent-child relationships was measured by the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale developed by H. Barnes and D. Olson in 1982, which allowed for a degree of openness and communication difficulties. The results of the study indicate that a significant group of children from families of emigrant mothers and fathers highly appreciate open communication with their mothers, and openness is exacerbated when both parents leave. The communication with the absent father(by phone, the Internet) is more open. Approximately 1/5 of the children surveyed do not see serious difficulties in communicating with their mothers, but the temporary separation of the child and father intensifies communication difficulties. Apart from the type of emigrant family, the other factors influencing the child’s perception of communication with parents are the child’s age and length of emigration.

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