A Life Span Psychological Study on the Relationship of adolescents-parents

2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 13610136
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 教育・社会系心理学
• Research Institution: KOBE UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: SAITO Seiichi Kobe University, Faculty of Human Development, Assistant Professor, 発達科学部, 助教授 (60186939)
• Project Period (FY): 2001 – 2002
• Keywords: adolescent / parents / relationship / lifespan psychology / life event

Research Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of adolescents and parents in terms of life span psychology. Two questionnaire researches were administered on adolesents and his/her parents, which were contained variables about well-being psychological development, demographic index, psychological adaptation.
Main results are as follows ;
1. Most father had traditional gender on house-keeping, work, child-caring, but most mother had the sense of equality of sexes. Those attudes inflensed the relationship of adolescents and parents, especially daughter and father. First menstruation and first ejaculation had girls/boys change the relationship of her/him and opposite sex parent.
2. Most parent saw the relationship of her/him and her/his child negative after she/he became teenager, but adolescents saw that relationship negative a little.
3. Because most parent who had adolescent(s) had her/his parents who were elder ager, she/he had developmental and mental problems of her/his child(s) and parents. So those problems pressed parents, they may have mental health problems. These events had interactive influenses of the relationship of adolescent and parents.