Mother-Child Discrepancies in Reporting Children’s Close Relationships

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  • 小学生の人間関係についての母子の報告のズレ
  • ショウガクセイ ノ ニンゲン カンケイ ニ ツイテ ノ ボシ ノ ホウコク ノ ズレ

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  The present research examined mother-child discrepancies in reports of the children’s close relationships, as well as whether the discrepancies reported relate to the children’s well-being.  Participants were 337 mother-child pairs (the children were in elementary school grades 2-6 ; 47% were girls).  The children and their mothers reported on the content of the children’s close relationships, using the Picture Affective Relationships Test.  The children also completed the Kid-KINDLR Quality of Life Questionnaire, which measures children’s well-being.  The findings indicated that (a) although both the mothers and the children nominated many different kinds of significant others, the mothers reported more kinds than the children did; (b) the mothers nominated “the mother figure” more often and rated that as more important than the children did, especially in core psychological functions; (c) when affective types were identified in terms of the most dominant figure, 58% of the mothers reported their child as being a “mother” type, whereas 24% of the children did; and (d) the reported mother-child discrepancies were inversely related to the children’s quality of life (QOL) scores.  The meaning of mother-child discrepancies was discussed.

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