A TRANSITION OF TIME IN PARENTS-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS

A comparison of canonical discriminant structures, means and standard deviations of parents-child relationship scales between the present and 25 years ago

Abstract

In order to examine the transition of time in parents-child relationships, the data of the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory were collected 25 years ago by KOJIMA, and the same scales' data collected in 1990 by the author were compared by means of a canonical discriminant analysis. 2 pairs of canonical factors were similarly significant in both data, though factor structures were a little different. Means of canonical variables of four groups (son-father, son-mother, daughter-father, daughter-mother) also showed a little difference but the total patterns were similar on the canonical axes. The differences of means and standard deviations were tested. From these results, the role of parents of 25 years ago seemed to be clearer than nowadays. Present parents' attitude on emotional control seemed to be stronger than in the past.