Inhibition factors for social support in depressed women engaged housework

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26750184
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Hoshino Aiko 名古屋大学, 医学系研究科(保健), 講師 (10534406)
• Research Collaborator: SUWA Mami 医療法人成精会, クリニックアンセム
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: うつ病 / 女性 / 家事 / 育児 / 介護

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study investigated difficulties in housework and inhibition factors for social support in depressed women. We focused on especially women engaged in looking after child or aged people, and conducted the survey of interview and questionnaire survey.
The result of interview showed that depressed women engaged in child rearing felt fear based on pathological cognition caused by depression, and have　difficulties in child rearing because of disabilities executive functioning. In the result of questionnaire survey, scores of accepting responsibility type of stress coping inventory in normal women were significantly negative related to scores of the scale of egalitarian sex role attitudes. Also, there were positive significant relationships between satisfaction of social support and sex role attitudes. Those results suggested that sex role attitudes effected on social support and ways of stress coping in normal women engaged in child rearing.

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