Family Ritual Questionnaire

Family functioning and interactions is conceptualized through the rituals that a family performs. Rituals are a component of the family environment and can describe how a family interacts internally and with the external environment. Rituals include patterned interactions (e.g., dinner times), family traditions (e.g., birthdays), and celebrations (e.g., weddings, holidays). The measure captures settings in which rituals are performed (weekends, vacations, etc.) and their dimensions (occurrence, roles, routine, attendance, affect, symbolic significance, continuation, deliberateness), indicating both how they create meaning within the family and their incidence. Psychometric testing conducted in original development and in subsequent samples.

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Fiese, B. H., & Kline, C. A. (1993). Development of the Family Ritual Questionnaire: Initial reliability and validation studies. Journal of Family Psychology, 6, 1–10.

Review of all work related to family rituals and routines: Fiese, B. H., Tomcho, T. J., Douglas, M., Josephs, K., Poltrock, S., & Baker, T. (2002). A review of 50 years of research on naturally occurring family routines and rituals: Cause for celebration? Journal of Family Psychology, 16(4), 381–390.

Additional information

Construct

Family functioning

Condition

No specific condition

Age

Any

Country Where Developed

United States

Number of Items

52

Short Form?

No

Respondent

Adult family member

Language(s)

English

Cost/Fee

No cost

How to Access

By permission of author: bhfiese@illinois.edu