Abstract
In this report the author discussed researches of him and his co-workers on the family psychosocial stress from the following three viewpoints. 1. In case of development of the scale for measuring stresses, we should be prepare previously a theoretical framework in order to collect items of subscales in advance. Especially, the life structure theory and the family life-cycle theory are important. 2. It must be much accounted of the method and methodology how to grasp a whole of stress structure of individuals. Understanding the stress conditions of them dynamically and systematically, we tried to classify their stresses in everyday life as a stress pattern of each individual by Q-mode cluster analysis. 3. In order to find the clue for stress reduction, we interviewed representative cases who manifested a typical stress pattern, and attempted to describe actual stress conditions, coping behavior and social resources for coping of each type. These approaches from both quantitative and qualitative data were available.
