2022 Volume 73 Issue 8 Pages 506-517
Working women with children often receive support from their mothers. Mothers' free time is usually the main resource that allows them to provide support to their adult daughters. A secondary analysis was conducted using data from the National Family Research of Japan 2008, which was a random survey targeting people all over Japan. The subjects were 669 adult women with children whose mothers were still alive.
The hierarchical logistic regression analyses on the three categories of support (providing monetary support, caring for children, and giving advice) did not reveal any significant effects of the employment status of mothers and daughters. However, an interaction effect was observed on the support of giving advice when mothers and daughters were in the same employment situation.
Further research is necessary to understand the nature of the mothers' support in more detail and to analyze the paired data of mothers and their adult daughters.
