| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FURUI Hikari Aichi Shukutoku University, professor, コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (30238662)
HAMADA Yoko Keio University, professor, 環境情報学部, 教授 (50172979)
INOUE Kako Yokohama National University, associate professor, 教育人間科学部, 助教授 (10242372)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Appropriately acknowledging the status of a child's emotions is important for parents with infants to act successfully as caretakers. IFEEL Pictures (IFP) and its Japanese edition (JIFP), a system for reading infants' facial expressions from their photos, were developed with the aim of investigating parents' emotional availability.
In this study, we investigated the following to examine the usefulness of JIFP as a childrearing assistance tool. First, as basic research, we studied the basic reactions to JIFP of female university students, pregnant women, and mothers, then examined the differences in the mothers' reactions according to the age of the child they were rearing. As a result, it became clear that the women's daily experience of interactions with infants, such as pregnancy, child delivery and child rearing, influenced their abilities to read and recognize the infants' facial expressions. Second, as clinical research, the JIFP findings of mothers who complained of childrearing anxieties and difficulties were cross-checked against the clinical profiles, and their characteristics were investigated. Our findings suggest that JIFP may be useful for screening mothers.
In this study, a variety of measures and designs have been formulated to make the implementation and assessment methods more practical and clinically usable. Examples of our efforts include the devising of an IFEEL Story technique and the development of relativity assessment categories. In the future, we hope to further enhance the validity, reliability and objectivity of the JIFP itself and to further seek its potential as a tool for use in clinical situations. Although we have thus far restricted the gathering of data to those of women and mothers during the past three years, we wish to expand the scope of our study to examine the characteristics of the emotional availability of men and fathers.
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