2003 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 71-82
The purpose of the present study was to clarify the affective stability of child-rearing of mothers and fathers. Subjects were 140 mothers and fathers: seventy couples of parents. The affective stability of child-rearing was analyzed by the relevance of the cognition of the relationship to the child : the cognition of child behavior and the cognition of parent behavior.
The main results were as follows: 1) Fathers had higher scores on the affective stability of child-rearing than mothers. 2) Fathers and mothers had similar scores on the cognition of relationship to child. 3) Fathers and mothers had the same affective stability on child-rearing's affection to the cognition of parent behavior. 4) The affective stability of child-rearing and the cognition of relationship to child were related to the age of the child.
The findings were discussed from the point of view of psychological similarity and difference between fathers and mothers.
