2011 Volume 13 Issue 4 Pages 160-169
The purpose of the study was to clarify the relationship between child care and psychological well-being of fathers with preschool child. In this study, 1000 household which have been using nursery centers in C city of K prefecture and K city of O prefecture were surveyed. The questionnaire consisted to father's age, income, work condition, participation of child-care, recognition of sense of usefulness to family, marital satisfaction, mental health, health-related quality of life, mother's age, number of children, age of youngest child and work condition. We designed the causal model to examine the relationship between father's participation of child-care and health-related QOL. Specifically, father's participation of child-care impact to marital satisfaction and mental health through recognition of sense of usefulness to family, and marital satisfaction impact a direct effect or through mental health indirectly on health-related QOL. Above model was examined by using structural equation modeling. We used the data from 319 household with no missing values on the variables. The results was as follows, 1) father's participation of child-care is contributing to health-related QOL through recognition of feeling of usefulness to family. 2) father's participation of child-care is contributing to health-related QOL through marital satisfaction and mental health. These results suggests that the promotion of father's participation of child-care is important problems.
