Family Communication Schemata and the Circumplex Model of Family Functioning

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Parental Confirmation and Affection as Mediators of Family Communication Patterns and Children's Mental Well-Being (2007, background): “In addition, researchers have further demonstrated that family communication patterns are central to family functioning (Schrodt, 2005), so much so that they have been used successfully to predict outcomes for both parents and children (for a detailed review, see Koerner & Fitzpatrick, 2002b).”
Family Ties: Communicating Identity Through Jointly Told Family Stories (2005, methodology): “Although the model has been critiqued and revised over the years (for a review, see Schrodt, 2005 ), the most recent version argues that higher (although not extreme) levels of cohesion and adaptability signify more balanced systems, and thus higher levels of overall family functioning.”
A Meta-Analytical Review of Family Communication Patterns and their Associations with Information Processing, Behavioral, and Psychosocial Outcomes (2008, methodology): “…of the RFCP. Likewise, structural traditionalism and conflict avoidance represent two dimensions of a conformity orientation in the family (Schrodt, 2005), with the former emphasizing conformity as a function of a family’s authority structure and the latter as a function of suppressing…”