女子大学生の乳児との関わり体験

乳児との1回の関わりがもたらす行動・意識の変化

抄録

This study examined the influence of contacts with an infant on undergraduate students' behaviours to the infant one month later. Participants were 22 female undergraduate students. They played with a boy for about 5 minutes at his 6 and 7 months of age, and asked their impressions of the contact in ten words. The frequencies of the students' behaviours (ex. patting, rocking) to the infant were significantly increased. The results of factor analysis of students' impressions indicated three factors: "perplexity", "healing", and "enjoyment". "enjoyment" increased and "prplexity" decreased at 7 months. These findings suggest students' behaviours to the infant were increased and their impressions have changed positively by contacts with the infant.