| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to discover the process in which the mothers of children with disabilities, form and transform their attitudes towards their children with disabilities, through interactions with the social environments, such as their family and relatives, health professionals, the other mothers of disabled children, society. In order to approach this purpose, semi-structured interviews and social survey were conducted with mothers of children with disabilities. The results indicated the following.
1. Mothers had formed an attitude of "total commitment," in which they became unified with their respective disabled child, had come to understand that relieving their child's disability was their mission, and had been trying to completely accept the life and disability of their child.
2. Subsequently, mothers recognized both what they would gain and what they would lose through such total commitment; consequently, they took care of their child in the midst of conflict.
3. As long as the goal of relieving the child's disability was maintained, total commitment was maintainable; however, when they experienced incidents which made them realize that they had to give up relieving their child's disability, and when they realized that what they would lose would be more than what they would gain through such total commitment, they consciously self-adjusted the mother role norm, which had until that time restricted them, and reduced their level of total commitment.
4. The mothers evaluated what types of effects were experienced by the child, themselves, and other family members, by decreasing their level of total commitment to the child, and they readjusted their level of commitment depending on evaluation of the results.
5. Through their decrease of total commitment, instead of negative feelings, the mothers rather experienced positive feelings in that they were glad that they had a child who was disabled.
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