Relationship between parental growth and happiness with childcare in early childhood

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25862267
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Community health nursing
• Research Institution: Health Sciences University of Hokkaido
• Principal Investigator: Akeno Seiko 北海道医療大学, 看護福祉学部, 助教 (20433451)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 親性 / 母親 / 育児幸福感 / 育児支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study was performed to examine the relationship between growth as a mother and happiness with childcare in early childhood. An anonymous self-recorded questionnaire was given to 1,103 mothers who participated in a health check-up of their infants. The Early Childhood Parenting Scale and the Childcare Happiness Scale were used to measure parental growth and happiness with childcare, respectively. Responses were obtained from 450 mothers (collection rate: 40.8%). These responses showed that the parenthood of mothers with higher childcare happiness was significantly higher than that of those with lower childcare happiness. This finding suggests that support for parental growth is important to allow mothers to be content with childcare.

Free Research Field

地域看護学