1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Life Cycle Porent-Child Relationships in Postparenthood. College of Arts and Science,
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06610135
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
教育・社会系心理学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Woman's Christian University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOSAWA Yorio Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Professor, 文理学部, 教授 (00060632)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1995
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| Keywords | Postparenthood / Parent-child relationships / Life cycle |
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| Research Abstract |
Childrearing belief, perceived self-competence and importance of the self by mothers in postparenthood and their daughters are investigated. 93 daughters (46 college students and 47 working ladies) and their mothers were recruited in three universities in Tokyo area. Age of the mothers ranges 44-65 years old and of the daughters 19-32 years old.
Sets of self-administered questionnaire for mothers were provided by their daughters and asked to mail them back. Those for daughters were given in their classrooms and in their offices. The questionnaire was designed to collect information about a various topics, including students' and parents' backgrounds ; age, gender, living style (with/without family) and items including childrearing belief, perceived self-competence and importance of the self.
Findings are as follows ; (1) Both groups of daughters (college students and working ladies) perceive childrearing as encumbrance for them, whereas their mothers perceive their experienced childrearing to be enjoyable and worthwhile. (2) Mothers in postparenthood perceive their dependence to the child after senerity to be less important and less realistic. They seem to inhibit their future perspectives. (3) Mothers in postparenthood perceive themselves to be submissive to social norm, whereas daughters perceive themselves to be active in their social manners. (4) Positive perception of childrearing by mothers correlate with negative perception of childrearing by daughters. This tendency is clear in mother-college students dyed rather than mother-working ladies dyad.
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