• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.269-276
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• 2024

This study aims to identify healthy family functions that can help university students, who are in the transitional phase from late adolescence to adulthood, establish self-differentiation, which is a critical developmental task for them. The research examines whether family function mediates the relationship between family function and self-differentiation, and aims to provide foundational data for the development of programs to support stable self-differentiation in university students and policies to enhance family function. To achieve this, a self-report online survey was conducted with 204 university students enrolled in a university located in Northern Gyeonggi Province. The SPSS 25.0 program was used for data analysis, including calculating internal consistency, conducting frequency analysis to understand the general characteristics of the study subjects, descriptive statistics to determine the level of research variables, independent sample t-tests, ANOVA, and post-hoc tests to identify differences in research variables according to the characteristics of the study subjects, and using the SPSS Process Macro to test mediation effects. The results showed a significant positive correlation between family function and self-differentiation, indicating that family function significantly influences the establishment of self-differentiation. These findings suggest that family function plays a crucial role in the development of self-differentiation and provide foundational data for practical support in education aimed at fostering healthy families.