Study on middle-aged women's role with regard to child-rearing

这项研究的目的是评估母亲如何在养育子女方面得到母亲的支持，这些母亲如何支持自己的孙子孙女的养育，以及如何认识到每个人的支持程度的差异。被试包括山形普雷夫的360名有5岁孩子的母亲、自己的母亲和她们的婆婆。母亲们认可来自自己母亲的信息、情感和工具性支持，对这种支持水平感到满意，但也期待从她们那里得到支持。他们的母亲为有5岁孩子的女儿提供了信息、情感和工具性的支持，但对与他们一起生活的女儿的支持比对分居的女儿更多。支持孙子孙女养育的祖母自尊更低，对他们的生活更满意。对孙辈养育的支持可能会对自己的健康状况产生积极的影响。母亲们并不指望丈夫的母亲会支持她们，尽管她们的丈夫的母亲想要给她们提供支持。这些母亲即使在分开生活时也希望得到自己母亲的支持，但在一起生活时却没有期望得到丈夫母亲的支持。这些结果表明，祖母在育儿方面的支持对有孩子的母亲来说是重要的。护士必须根据母亲的生活条件确定母亲的需要和期望的程度。

The purposes of this study were to assess how mothers were supported with regard to child-rearing by their mothers, how these mothers supported the rearing of their own grandchildren, and how the level of difference in each individuals support was recognized. The participants were 360 mothers with 5-year old children in Yamagata Pref, their own mothers, and their mothers-irr-law.The mothers recognized informational, emotional and instrumental support from their own mothers, were satisfied with this level of support, but also expected support from them. Their mothers offered the informational, emotional and instrumental support to their daughters with 5-year old children, but offered more support to those daughters who lived together with them than to those who lived separately.The grandmothers who offered support towards the rearing of their grandchildren bad more self-esteem and felt more satisfied with their lives. The support for grandchildren-rearing may have a positive influence on their own health condition.The mothers didn't expect support from their husbands' mothers although their husbands' mothers wanted to offer their support to them. The mothers expected support from their own mothers even when they lived separately but they didn't expect support from their husbands' mothers when they lived together.These results suggest that the grandmothers' support with regard to child-rearing is significant for the mothers with infants. Nurses have to identify the level of the mother's need and expectation of support based on the living conditions of the mothers.