RESEARCH ARTICLE
Effects of Intimate Marital Relationships Upon Self-Reported Rearing Styles Among Japanese Parents of Young Children
Xi Liu, Masayo Uji, Toshinori Kitamura*
Department of Clinical Behavioral Sciences (Psychological Medicine), Kumamoto University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, Japan 860-8556.
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 1
First Page: 17
Last Page: 22
Publisher Id: TOFAMSJ-1-17
DOI: 10.2174/1874922400801010017
Article History:
Received Date: 5/3/2008Revision Received Date: 15/4/2008
Acceptance Date: 16/4/2008
Electronic publication date: 7/5/2008
Collection year: 2008
© 2008 Lu et al.;
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
In order to examine the effects of intimate marital relationships upon self-reported rearing styles towards a young child, 118 Japanese couples with at least one child were administered a set of questionnaires. A path analysis showed that wives whose husbands treated them with an affectionate attitude were more likely to hold affectionate childrearing styles; wives whose husbands treated them with a controlling attitude were more likely to hold overprotective child-rearing styles; husbands whose wives acted in controlling ways towards them tended to exhibit less affectionate and more overprotective rearing child-rearing practices.
