Abstract
The purpose of this study was to construct the hypotheses of the relationship between father and mother’s marital satisfaction and abuse anxiety during 2-3 years after birth, whose child was the second or first child. Survey and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 pairs of father and mother. M-GTA was used to analyze the second child and first child each. The result showed that there were 13 concepts and 4 categories for the second child, while there were 11 concepts and 4 categories for the first child. The second child’s fathers and mothers were parenting on the axis of «marital satisfaction» affected by «the cognition about the share of parenting and housework with partner» and «how to angry (scold) their child», and it is related to «abuse anxiety». Thus, it may be needed for the second child’s fathers and mothers to approach to their marital satisfaction to support their abuse anxiety. By the contrast, it was suggested that, for the first child’s parents, «marital satisfaction» (marital relationship) affected by «the cognition about the share of parenting and housework with partner» and «abuse anxiety» (parenting) were not integrated. It means that the first child’s fathers and mothers get their marital relationship and parenting independently yet, so it is needed to approach to one by one to understand their abuse anxiety.
