Abstract
Nowadays it is said that father in a family has changed or has been changing. The purpose of this study is to make the change clear by comparing the present father with the past father.
The subjects of the analysis are 3, 132 fathers and 783 children. The period of survey is from June to September, 1987.
The brief results of the analysis are as follows :
1) The image of past father : leadership, frankness, honesty, stubbornness, intelligence, etc.
2) The image of present father : warmth, patience, stubbornness, brightness, intelligence, etc.
3) The image of present father toward children : leadership, warmth, stubbornness, brightness, orderliness, etc.
According to the results, while the past father used to play instrumental role, the present father is playing expressive role, too; however the image of father has been produced by people's expectation to fathers within the society and in this sense it seems that fathers are always playing the both roles for and toward children.
