育児における女性の心理的体験に関する研究の今後

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How do women experience motherhood? Many studies have reported on maternal anxieties and maternal stresses. These studies have demonstrated that psychological conflicts of mothers could be sufficient to defeat the "myth of maternal love." However, two problems remain. Firstly, these studies have not examined motherhood realistically. Secondly, these studies have been conducted based on the idea that psychological conflicts predict non-adaptive child-rearing. In this study, we have proposed the possibility that psychological conflicts about child-rearning can contribute to the development as mothers, and we have reviewed studies on this development. Such studies have resulted in the new perspective, that mothers can triumph over difficulties in child-rearing and can adapt as mothers. However, these studies have not revealed how mothers triumph over their problems, or how they adapt as mothers. As a result, we have proposed a new foundation for psychological studies on motherhood that focuses on the process of motherhood. With this perspective,we would approached the mechanisms of how women experience motherhood and how they adapt as mothers.
2009-03-31