The development of community attachment designed to contribute to a child rearing support system, and to address falling birthrates within the community.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24659997
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Aomori University of Health and Welfare (2014); Hirosaki University (2012-2013)
• Principal Investigator: KOGAWA Terumi 青森県立保健大学, 健康科学部, 教授 (60333720)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUKASAKU Takurou 弘前大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 講師 (40389804) ; MASUDA Takahito 弘前大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (20369755)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 地域愛着 / 向社会性 / 社会参加学習 / 地域参加活動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to explore factors that may assist the development of education programs designed to contribute to a child rearing support system, and to address falling birthrates within the community. The factors explored were service learning, views toward child rearing, community attachment, and prosocial behavior. The present study was performed to clarify the relationship between community attachment and prosocial behavior, and the number of children within a family and time spent living at the current residence. Community attachment and kizuna appear to enhance prosocial behavior, having more children. It may be possible to increase prosocial behavior by increasing connections among people in the community through interacting with children. It is necessary to develop educational programs to enhance community attachment and prosocial behavior in both parental and adolescent generations together with the recognition of kizuna.

Free Research Field

地域保健