Abstract
The purpose of this study was to discover the relationship between the behavior of mothers during the dental treatment of handicapped children and the manner of the mother in bringing up the child. The mothers were classified into two groups; the mothers of Group A were with their children in the operating room while receiving dent. treatment and the mothers of Group B stayed in the waiting room.
The subjects were thirty seven pairs of mother and handicapped child who visited the clinic of pediatric dentistry of Aichi-Gakuin University, Dental Hospital. The mothers could choose whether to be with their children while receiving dental treatment or not.
Examination of the manners of. the mothers adopted the Takensiki's parentchild relationship test. The test ex mined such items as “negative rejection”“positive refection” “strictness” “expectation” “interference” “uneasiness”“dotage” “blind obedience” “contradiction” and “disagreement”.
The manner-score of mothers in the test were classified into three degrees as “dangerous-zone” “pre-dangerous-zone” and “standard-zone”.
The results are summarized as follows:
1. In both groups examined the manner-score of the mothers in five items, “negative rejection” “positive refection” “strictness” “dotage” and “contradiction”, were in the dangerous-zone or the pre-dangerous-zone.
2. Manner-scores of the mothers of Group B were poorer in all items except “dotage” and “anxiety” than that of the mothers of Group A.
3. Many of the mothers of Group A showed scores the standard-zone in two items of “blind obedience” and “disagreement”, while many of the mothers of Group B showed scores of the dangerous-zone in the two items.
