The succesion of egalitarian attitude from mothers to their daughters

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380863
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Fukuyama University
• Principal Investigator: AONO Atsuko 福山大学, 人間文化学部, 教授 (70202489)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SAWADA Tadayuki 愛媛県立医療技術大学, 保健科学部, 准教授 (50300447) ; UI Miyoko 玉川大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80400654)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 男女平等意識 / フェミニズム / 継承性 / 母親 / 娘

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explored inherited egalitarian attitudes from mothers to daughters from a qualitative and quantitative perspective. The analysis through Trajectory Equifinality Model (TEM) showed that mothers’ advice or supportive attitudes were related to daughters’ egalitarian consciousness, and that feminist mothers exerted an influence on their daughters’ future plans not by teaching gender equality directly, but by demonstrating their own life-styles. Furthermore, the study’s quantitative results showed that daughters’ views of gender equality were similar to their mothers’, and daughters’ egalitarian attitudes were elevated by trust in their mothers’ level of life satisfaction.

Free Research Field

ジェンダー心理学