1985 年 28 巻 2 号 p. 59-65
The purpose of this study was to clarify the structure of the mother-child relationship. In this paper we analyed the gap of consciousness between mothers and children in the actual and ideal discipline of children. The subjects were second-year students of junior high schools and their mothers in Fukushima City. The results were as follows : 1. In both actual and ideal discipline of children, mothers were mostly of the strict type. Mothers' ideal discipline type was different from children's. 2. Mothers' actual discipline type was mostly agreed with children's and the rate of agreement between the answers of girls and their mothers was higher than that of boys. 3. In actual discipline, educational background of mothers was significant and mothers with higher education were mostly of the strict type.