著者

田中 佑子 中澤 潤 中澤 小百合

出版者

日本教育心理学会

雑誌

教育心理学研究 (ISSN:00215015)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.44, no.2, pp.156-165, 1996-06-30

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This study examined the influence of husbands' absence on wives' psychological stress. Women whose husbands transferred with(N=180) or without(N=229) being accompanied by their families, completed questionnaires about stress reaction, child-care anxiety, children's problem behaviors, parent-child communication and fathers' cooperation with child-care. ANOVA analysis revealed that women who did not accompany their husbands(tanshin-funin) reported more stress reactions such as, "feeling lonely", "anxiety" and "poor physical condition" than did women who accompanied their husbands(taido-funin). Results of path analysis indicated that (1) tanshin-funin wives' child-care anxiety accounted for twice as much variance in their stress reaction, compared with taido-funin wives', and (2) tanshin-funin children's early delinquent behaviors influenced their mothers' child-care anxiety and stress. In addition, tanshin-funin wives recognized that their spouses' father/husband role performance affected children's problem behavior and women's stress. These data suggest that physical husband/father absence does not have so much of a direct negative effect on their families' well-being, but physical absence plus functional absence lead to more child's problem behavior, and wives' child-care anxiety or negative stress.