小学生の父親および母親との心理的結合性と家庭における食事場面の諸要因の関連

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between the factors of meal scenes and father-child and mother-child psychological connection of elementary school children. Two hundred thirty elementary school children in the fifth and sixth grades and 94 of their parent pairs completed our questionnaire. The main results are as follows : (1) Children with higher levels of father-child and mother-child psychological connection had more satisfied meal concerns, communication and atmosphere at meal time. It is to be noted that children with higher levels of father-child psychological connection had dinner with parents more frequently than the ones with lower levels of the said connection. (2) Concerning the consciousness and attitude Over the meal scenes, more nutritional concern and consciousness were shown by mothers of the children with higher levels of mother-child psychological connection. In this connection, there was no relation to the fathers' levels of consciousness and attitude.