Family Communication and Family Relations: A Bibliometric and Network Analysis

Lenilda Soares Viana, Karla Maria Damiano Teixeira

communication in the family, family relationship, family communication, bibliometric analysis, network analysis.

The aim of this study was to carry out a survey of the worldwide scientific publications on family communication and family relationships, carried out since 2000. 469 articles from the Web of Science database were analyzed using the VOSViewer® software, performing bibliometric analysis, network and descriptive. A panorama of publications linked to different contexts was identified, such as marital relationship, health / disease dyad, conflict, media, sexuality, homosexual relationships, spirituality, among other approaches. It was found that in the researched database the terms "communication", "family", "marriage" and "health" are strongly interconnected, highlighting the communication in this network, confirming the importance of studying this theme as a way to guarantee the communication success in the family. In the database searched, the vast majority of studies were conducted in the United States. This data justifies the importance of this study and reveals the need for investments in related research in other countries.

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.12.4.7