오늘날 우리사회는 전통척 공동사회가 해체되면서 확대가족 체제의 기능이 약화되면서 보다 긴밀한 상호작용을 통한 부부중심적인 핵가족체제로 변하고 있다. 부부관계란 서로 다른 가정과 환경에서 자란 두 남녀가 결혼이라는 의식을 통하여 맺게 된 비혈연적이지만 가장 밀접하고 지속성 있는 전(全)인격적 관계이다. 현대가족은 부부관계가 핵심이 되고 기본이 되며, 이러한 부부간의 상호 작용이 원만하고 만족할때만이 가족의 안정성과 지속성이 유지 될 수 있다. 따라서 가족을 이해하기 위해서는 일반 성인 부부를 통해 가족들의 심리상태 및 가족관계를 총체적, 역동적으로 연구해 볼 필요가 있다.
The purpose of this study was to investigate marital family perception by KFD test, The administering procedure of the KFD test were used by Burns and Kaufman(1982). The 322 subjects were selected from marital in the city of Pusan. M.SD. and T-test were employed to analyze data collected by instruments. The results were as follows. First. In actions of drawings. five areas of actions of drawing. nuring. self-love communication. cooperation. revealed significant differences between husbands and wives. Second. In figure characteristics a length of arm. degree of completation of eyes revealed significant differences partly. Third. In dynamics of drawings. two factors of bing of superiority. the direction of figure revealed statistically significant differences. Fourth. In styles of drawings. three areas of encapsulation. lining at the bottom. underlining individual figures revealed statistically significant differences in sexes, From these results. it was revealed this application of KFD is useful.