Exploring Links between Father's Cooperation with Family Chores, Mother's Feelings of Mother-role and Wife-role Attainment, Child's Aggression and Father's Stress Coping Styles.

Abstract

　　This paper examined the relations of the father's cooperation with family chores to the mother's feelings of mother-role and wife-role attainment, child's aggression and the father's own stress coping styles. 604 married couples with a kindergarten child living in Gunma were selected as subjects. Two kinds of questionnaires, that is the measure of the father's cooperation with family chores and the father's stress coping styles, were administered to these fathers. As for mothers, two kinds of questionnaires, that is the scale of the mother's feelings of mother-role and wife-role attainment, and the mother's recognition of the child's aggression, were administered. Results showed that one of the subscales of the father's cooperation with family chores named “communication between husband and wife” had significant positive correlations with the mother's feelings of mother-role and wife-role attainment, and significant negative correlations with the child's aggression. And another subscale of the father's cooperation with family chores named “support to domestic duties” showed significant positive correlation with the mother's feeling of wife-role attainment. Furthermore, the children who had higher cooperative fathers and higher motherrole or wife-role attainment mothers showed relatively lower aggression scores. As to the father's stress coping styles, one of the subscales named “communication between husband and wife” had signficant positive correlation with one of the three subscales of the father's stress coping styles named “steady efforts” and significant negative correlation with one subscale named “consulting with other persons.” These results are discussed mainly from the previous studies concerning the family system.