| Budget Amount *help |
¥14,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥7,150,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,650,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We developed the inventory to assess the regulatory behavior of mothers in involving fathers with child rearing. The resulting Coparental Regulation Inventory with two subscales labeled “encouragement” and “criticism” had high construct validity, internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Using the inventory, we found the interactive coparenting between father and mother in different stages of child rearing as follows; the relationship between mothers’perceptions of fathers’involvement and fathers’ involvement in fathers’response was mediated by mothers’encouragement to fathers. Moreover, children’s externalizing behaviors had a positive effect on mothers’criticism, although there was no significant relationship between mothers’criticism and fathers’involvement in fathers’response. These findings suggest that mothers’encouragement has a supportive effect on harmonious coparenting; however, mothers’criticism does not necessarily activate fathers’involvement.
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