Cognitive Structure of Evaluations and Expectations by Mothers Who Had Children with Disabilities

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  • 障害児を持つ母親の評価と期待の構造
  • ショウガイジ オ モツ ハハオヤ ノ ヒョウカ ト キタイ ノ コウゾウ

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Mothers' attitudes and their evaluations of their husband's attitudes toward their families, as well as their expectations for their husbands and their social environment, strongly influenced them in bringing up their children who had various disabilities (mentally retardation, autism, deafness, physical disabilities, or blindness). Therefore, the present research was carried out to investigate: (1) the mothers' attitudes toward their husbands, (2) their expectations for their social environment that were related to their children's treatment and education, and (3) the relations between the cognitive structure of evaluations and expectations, and the types of disability that their children had. A questionaire was used that had questions concerning mothers' attitudes toward their families, their evaluations of their husbands' attitudes toward their families and their expectations for their husbands, as well as their expectations for social events concerning their children's growth, such as their children's treatment and education. The results were as follows: 1) The mothers' evaluations were factor analysed. For each of self evaluations, the evaluations of their husbands and expectations for their husbands, two factors were extracted. It was concluded that cognitive conflicts existed in the mothers' cognitions. 2) The mothers' expectations of the environment were analysed by Hayashi's quantification theory type III. This analysis generated four axes; mothers' attituded were classified into three main types: passive attitude, active attitude, and median attitude, and, further, passive attitudes were classified into three subtypes. 3) To confirm the relation between mothers' attitudes and their children's disabilities, discriminant analysis was used. Classification errors occured differently according to the characteristics of the children's disabilities.

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