Perception Gaps between Husband and Wife on Childcare

コソダテ ニツイテノ イシキ ト ジッタイ ニカンスル チョウサ 2002 ノ ガイヨウ オット ノ コソダテ オ メグル フウフ ノ ヒョウカ ニンシキ ノ ズレ ニカンスル イチコウサツ

スズキ, フミコ

Suzuki, Fumiko

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

英語

評価認識のズレ

複眼的視点

日常的子育て

計量的調査

husband's looking after their children

perception gaps

bifocal views

daily childcare

statistics survey

This paper introduces the abstract of the statistics survey of attitude toward and actual conditions of childcare. The survey was conducted from February to March 2002, on the parents whose children go to four nursery schools or the eight kindergartens in Tokyo and Kanagawa areas. 312 families out of 992 answered the survey. ( Response rate: 31.5%) I adopt two methods to this survey. The first is to introduce bifocal views by analyzing both husband's and wife's viewpoints on childcare, which highlights their perception gaps. The second is to focus on 15 basic items including quantity and quality of daily childcare. I analyzed answers from 245 couples with children of over 3 years old, concerning on husband's quantity and quality of both weekday's and holiday's childcare. The survey through this method has led to following observations: 1. A husband tends to overestimate his own contribution to childcare; meanwhile a wife does to underestimate her husband's contribution. 2. A husband tends to classify the task of childcare according to subject; meanwhile a wife does to recognize it without clear classification. 3. A husband has single evaluation measure on both of weekday's care and weekend's; meanwhile a wife has double evaluation measures. Further development of this analysis is supposed to investigate the interference between the couple's perception gaps on childcare and anxieties, satisfactions, attitudes, values and so forth for their children.

英語