A Enhancement of Family Quality of life through Love Language Program

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to enhance the family quality of life through love
language program. The instruments consist of 1) the family quality of life questionnaire
which involved40 items with reliability at 0.94 and 2) a love language program. developed
by the researcher which includes 5 topics 1) to learn language in compliments 2) to
spending quality time with each other 3) learning to be a provider 4) the expression to take
care and support and 5) the exposure or the expression of love between each other. The
sample was 470 adolescents aged between 15 -18 years. They had completed the family
quality of lifetest which given by the researcher. With the ascending scores, 30 of them have
been selected to attend the training program for6 sessions of 60 minutes, 1 session per
week. The results were as follows :
1. The overall of family quality of life among adolescents in Chonburi was
moderate (mean = 2.64). When considered separately, it found that to support what the
family members can be done had highest average (mean = 2.72) followed by the physical
well-being (mean = 2.62) the emotional well-being(mean = 2.51) the parenting roles (mean
= 2.46) and the family interaction (mean = 2.44) respectively.
2. The family quality of life among the experimental group in pre-test and posttest was different with statistical significance at .05 in both overall and in each components.