diff --git a/internal/formats/spdx22json/to_format_model.go b/internal/formats/spdx22json/to_format_model.go
index 60ffb5a96..905cba5b5 100644
--- a/internal/formats/spdx22json/to_format_model.go
+++ b/internal/formats/spdx22json/to_format_model.go
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func toPackages(catalog *pkg.Catalog, relationships []artifact.Relationship) []m
 
 func fileIDsForPackage(packageSpdxID string, relationships []artifact.Relationship) (fileIDs []string) {
 	for _, relationship := range relationships {
-		if relationship.Type != artifact.PackageOfRelationship {
+		if relationship.Type != artifact.ContainsRelationship {
 			continue
 		}
 
@@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ func toRelationships(relationships []artifact.Relationship) (result []model.Rela
 
 func lookupRelationship(ty artifact.RelationshipType) (bool, model.RelationshipType, string) {
 	switch ty {
-	case artifact.PackageOfRelationship:
-		return true, model.PackageOfRelationship, ""
+	case artifact.ContainsRelationship:
+		return true, model.ContainsRelationship, ""
 	case artifact.OwnershipByFileOverlapRelationship:
 		return true, model.OtherRelationship, fmt.Sprintf("%s: indicates that the parent package claims ownership of a child package since the parent metadata indicates overlap with a location that a cataloger found the child package by", ty)
 	}
diff --git a/syft/artifact/relationship.go b/syft/artifact/relationship.go
index a46c85b1f..921e475a1 100644
--- a/syft/artifact/relationship.go
+++ b/syft/artifact/relationship.go
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ const (
 	// has been completed.
 	OwnershipByFileOverlapRelationship RelationshipType = "ownership-by-file-overlap"
 
-	// PackageOfRelationship (supports any-to-package linkages) is a proxy for the SPDX 2.2 PACKAGE_OF
-	// relationship which is defined as: "to be used when artifact X is used as a package as part of package Y"
-	PackageOfRelationship RelationshipType = "package-of"
+	// ContainsRelationship (supports any-to-any linkages) is a proxy for the SPDX 2.2 CONTAINS relationship.
+	ContainsRelationship RelationshipType = "contains"
 )
 
 type RelationshipType string
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go
index bd14bb328..a78784056 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go
@@ -119,9 +119,9 @@ func packageFileOwnershipRelationships(p pkg.Package, resolver source.FilePathRe
 
 		for _, l := range locations {
 			relationships = append(relationships, artifact.Relationship{
-				From: l.Coordinates,
-				To:   p,
-				Type: artifact.PackageOfRelationship,
+				From: p,
+				To:   l.Coordinates,
+				Type: artifact.ContainsRelationship,
 			})
 		}
 	}