Abstract
There were 2 purposes for this study. One of them was to find out the difference between the fathers' recognition of their children's attachment object and the mother's, and the other was to study the factors which influence the parents' recognition of their children's attachment object. The subjects were 665 pairs of parents who had a child or children going to nursery schools. The survey was carried out in 14 different everyday situations. The results were as follows :
1) Both the fathers and the mothers think that their children consider the mothers more largely as attachment objects than the fathers.
2) The fathers think that they are more important for their children as the attachment objects than the mothers think the fathers are, and vice versa.
3) It was found that their children's genders and ages as well as their wives' occupations have a very strong influence over the fathers' recognition.
4) It was found that their children's ages and their own occupations have a great influence over the mothers' recognition while their children's genders and mother-child contact time have a moderate influence.
