2004 Volume 55 Issue 2 Pages 135-144
In our investigation of views on child care and education held by senior high school students, we centered our attention on gender difference while researching the relation between the formation of their views and the factors influencing their ego development. The analytic models were 313 senior high school students in Kanagawa Prefecture. The findings are as follows : 1) By factor analysis, it is found that their views on child care and education have three factor structures : emotional factor, social customs factor and external factor. 2) By comparison, boys' ego identity in the ego development is related to the external factor while girls' sense of division of labor between male and female is related to the emotional factor and social customs factor. So long as their experience of contacting with infants is concerned, it is found in boys and girls alike that both emotional factor and social customs factor are strengthened by their affection for infants.
