| Summary: | 碩士 === 台南女子技術學院 === 生活應用科學研究所 === 94 === This study investigated 5 step-families children’s parent-child interactions and personal characteristics through a series of small group counseling, individual interviews, survey, House-Tree-Person, and Kinetic Family Drawings at a public junior high school in Tainan city. After theme data analyses, major results were found as follows:
1.Parent-child interactions:
(1)Most of stepparents conducted either permissive or negative parental practice toward their stepchildren.
(2)An unsatisfied parent-child interaction existed on the stepfamilies.
(3)Most of stepchildren hardly supported with their biological parents to have a new marriage.
(4)Some elder siblings had very good interactions with their half-siblings.
(5)Due to the negative stereotype impression toward the stepfamily, most of the stepchildren have a confused identity, especially in foreign stepmother.
2.Personal characteristics:
(1)Most of stepchildren’s personality was agreeableness.
(2)Through small group counseling strategy, most of stepchildren could improve their neuroticism personality.
(3)Most of stepchildren’s identity style was moratorium.
(4)Through the “House-Tree-Person” and “Kinetic-Family-Drawing” activities, most stepchildren could present their insight of self-evasion and satellite severance.
(5)A homogeneous, cooperative and supportive small group could help stepchildren build positive personalities.
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