2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The development of support program and evaluation of effects for the relationships between child and caregiver

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22730536
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Clinical psychology
Research Institution	Joetsu University of Education
Principal Investigator	TAKAHASHI Yasuko 上越教育大学, 学校教育研究科(研究院), 准教授 (20467088)
Project Period (FY)	2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	内的作業モデル / 獲得安定型 / 代理対象 / 夫婦関係 / アタッチメント
Research Abstract	As the first purpose of this study, mothers' internal working models (IWMs) are classified as continuous-secure or earned-secure, or as the insecure type from AAI. The characteristics of alternative support figures (ASFs) in childhood are described. The second purpose is to examine the relationship with mothers' IWMs, existence of ASF in childhood, and current marital relationships, as well as how these variables influence the affection shown to the child. An inventory and/or an interview were conducted for 135 women in pregnancy and puerperium. The affection shown to the newborn baby was higher in the earned-secure who there were ASFs with than there weren't them with. The affection shown to a newborn baby was related to good marital relationships and existence of ASFs, after controlling for mothers' depression. The ASCT were conducted to fifty 4-6 year-old children and will be use as the assessment of the caregiver-child relationships with AAI.