2006 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 53-68
The purpose of this study was to develop the psycho-educational program which promoted nurturance of junior high school students. We clarified causal relation of nurturance to the children. A survey was administered to 287 junior high school students in Tokyo. The methods included in the survey were contacting experiences with the children, childhood care experience, social parenting, and relationship between school and community. Nurturance to the children was classified into negative attitude, positive attitude and the bewilderment. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that contact experience with children, assisting experience, degree of indifferent influenced the negative attitude, and contacting experience with children, assisting experience, indifference, social child care, friend relation influenced the positive attitude. And assisting experience, indifference affected the bewilderment. Finally, we discussed the concrete plan of psycho-educational program that promote nurturance to the children, according these effect factors.
