Initial Challenges and Protective Factors for the QOL of Mothers with Young Children during COVID-19: Japan and China
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- SUN Yi
- Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
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- LIAN Jietao
- Research Organization of Open Innovation and Collaboration, Ritsumeikan University
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- JIANG Lu
- School of Early Childhood Education, Shanghai Normal University
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- SUN Xuji
- Songjiang District Baiyun Kindergarten
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- ZHANG Shuangshuang
- Zhengdong New District Longhu First Kindergarten
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- KANZAKI Mami
- Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
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- YATO Yuko
- Ritsumeikan University
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Description
Over the past two years, COVID-19 has spread rapidly throughout the world and made a significant impact on people’s lives. This study focused on the initial influence on families with young children in 2020. We investigated the family environment of Japanese and Chinese families with young children during COVID-19 via a questionnaire survey in 2020. We examined the relationship between the changes in family life environment and the QOL (Quality of Life) of mothers in the two societies. The findings suggest that both in Japan and in China, families with young children met a lot of negative changes (e.g., unable to go outside or meet friends as usual, decrease in income) in the family environment during COVID-19, especially during the confinement period, which challenged the well-being of mothers. Meanwhile, they also perceived some positive changes, such as increased family time. In particular, the increased couple time or father-child time had a positive correlation to a mother’s sense of life fulfillment, and consequently, it is the sense of life fulfillment that predicted mothers’ QOL. The findings of this study suggest that the difficulties/concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including economic disadvantages were risk factors, whereas the life-fulfillment and good family relationships might play a positive role for mothers’QOL during such a challenging period. The differences in effect of these factors on mothers’well-being between the two societies were also discussed.
Journal
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- Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University
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Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University 5 (0), 66-, 2023
Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390861150940402560
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- NII Book ID
- AA12905992
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- ISSN
- 24350192
- 24350184
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- HANDLE
- 10367/0002000432
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- NDL BIB ID
- 033213508
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- IRDB
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- Abstract License Flag
- Allowed