2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development and assessment of a program to improve mothers' child care happiness
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17592258
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Clinical nursing
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| Research Institution | Nagano College of Nursing |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMIZU Yoshiko Nagano College of Nursing, 看護学部, Professor (80295550)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ENDO Toshiko University of Yamanashi Interdisciplinary, Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, Professor (00232992)
SEKIMIZU Shinobu Tohoku Women's University, 家政学部, Associate Professor (40350392)
OCHIAI Tomie Kanazawa Medical University of Nursing, 看護学部, Professor (20295554)
MIYAZAWA Michiru Nagano College of Nursing, 看護学部, Assistant teacher (90438177)
AKAHANE Hiroko Nagano College of Nursing, 看護学部, Assistant teacher (50405122)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | Mother / child care happiness / Development / program |
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| Research Abstract |
Based on Lazarus's theory, this study focused on positive emotions that mothers feel during childcare and termed those emotions "child-care happiness". The aims of the study were to develop a multidimensional scale of childcare happiness and to investigate the validity of it. Mothers with children aged six or under completed Childcare Happiness Scale (CHS).A total of 739 valid responses were collected. Construct validity was examined using factor analysis and correlation with the Subjective Well-Being Scale (SWBS) by Ito, et. al. (2003), and the Childcare-Related Stress Scale (CRSS) by Shimizu(2001).A factor analysis of the CHS yielded eight factors: (1) children's growth and development; (2) hopes and purpose in life; (3) growth as a parent; (4) being needed by children; (5) gratitude to their husbands; (6) new interpersonal relationship; (7) gratitude or comfort from their children; and (8) meaningfulness of childbirth The methods that mothers used to heighten happiness during childc
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are included (a) adding some creativity to their daily, life to a moderate extent; (b) listening to others' childcare experiences and thereby feeling relieved; (c) maintaining peace of mind through good time management; (d) praising themselves after overcoming tough situation/difficulties; (e) feeling rewarded for the stress of childcare; (f) relying on and appreciating people with whom they live with; and (g) feeling united with their children in terms of time, space and emotions. The factors that hindered mothers from enhancing their well-being while raising children were (a) fatigue and frustration derived from compounded stress; (b) their nature to try to do more than they can handle; and (c) inability to trust others with self-imposed determination to do everything by themselves. Mothers' good well-being during the child-caring years was found to boost levels of thoughtfulness, a driving force in childcare, and comfort. We developed a 2-hour program with the aim of improving mothers' happiness in rearing their children. We conducted this program twice with a group of 7 mothers following a pretest.
In the future, we hope to develop this program into a continuous course and use cross-sectional assessments to detect changes in mothers' child care satisfaction. Less
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