Srebro, Wacław (Wydział Teologiczny w Tarnowie, 2006)
What has been taken up in the present article is the problem of positive and negative effects of family factors on the process of children’s and adolescents’ emotional development. Family is the place where a person shapes and models the basic patterns of behaviour. The atmosphere of a family house and parents’ interactions stipulate the appearance and preservation of both normal and abnormal behaviour. The complexity of family functions can be explained by the theory of system. When one family member changes his/her behaviour it results in the unbalanced family system. The whole knowledge available allows to determine the features of family (whether the relations within the family are correct or incorrect) as well as indicate some behavioural retardations such as aggression, anxiety, depression and the psychosomatic diseases caused by family factors. As far as the available findings are concerned, the family and particularly indirect emotional contact of its members since the earliest childhood have a great influence on children’s and adolescents’ development.
