| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | b067 |
| Survey Title | Monograph/ The World of Junior High School Students: Mothers with Children in Junior High School - Hesitation to Leave the Child - 2000 |
| Depositor | Benesse Educational Research and Development Institute (Former Name:Benesse Corporation) |
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| Summary |
Junior high school students’ relationships with their parents are often associated with difficulty. Many junior high school students are involved in extraordinary incidents, which is worrisome to their parents. However, even under less extreme circumstances, junior high school students are in the midst of their rebellious period, and their parents often lose their temper with them. Many parents may hesitate when approaching their children, as if they were about to touch a bomb. According to the results of the surveys conducted for this monograph, many parents are doing their best to raise their children, and children think highly of their parents. There are many families where parents and their children are happy. However, there are many children who, although they feel comfortable at home, live too comfortably under their parents’ protection and are still psychologically dependent on them even when they reach junior high or high school age. Children must eventually go out into the world. For this reason, they must be empowered to become independent. Parents should be aware that the time for their children to leave the nest is approaching and therefore prepare to keep their distance from their children. For parents whose children have reached junior high school age, that time is now. This is the time to switch one’s parenting modus operandi from caring for dependent children to making children independent. How do today's parents, who have been raised differently from the parents of the past, feel about themselves, and what kinds of parent–child relationships are they trying to create? This survey explores mothers’ attitudes from this perspective. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe | First- to third-year students attending public junior high schools in Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, and Gunma. |
| Unit of Observation | Individual |
| Sample Size | The total number of parents surveyed was 1,366 (1,277 mothers, 45 fathers, and 6 others). Analysis was performed on data collected from 1,277 mothers (412 mothers with children in the first year of junior high school, 388 mothers with children in the second year of junior high school, 445 mothers with children in the third year of junior high school, and 32 mothers whose children’s class year is unknown; 612 mothers of boys, 614 mothers of girls, and 51 mothers of children whose gender is unknown (including those of unknown class year) |
| Date of Collection |
2000-05-01 ~ 2000-05-01 2000/05/01 |
| Time Period |
2000 ~ 2000 |
| Spatial Unit | tokyo chiba |
| Sampling Procedure | |
| Mode of Data Collection | Parents were asked to complete the questionnaire distributed through the school and submit it to the school in a sealed envelope. |
| Investigator | Benesse Corporation |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.b067 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | |
| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | Please refer to the abstract in Japanese. |
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) |
| Documentation | 【 Questionnaire 】 |
| Major Survey Items |
(1)Demographic items Relationship with child, respondent’s child's grade and gender, respondent’s child’s age, respondent’s employment status, respondent’s highest level of educational attainment, respondent’s physical condition (2) About the child Satisfaction with parenting, respondent’s relationship with her children, how much the respondent does for her children, volume of respondent’s conversation with their children, children's future potential, respondent’s concerns about her children, desired high school for children, status of behavioral check for children, etc., what kind of father and mother are perceived by her children, respondent’s evaluation of her children's behavior and normative consciousness (3) What it means to be a parent Changes in the respondent’s sense of happiness, respondent’s sense of joy upon learning of her pregnancy with her first child, respondent’s emotional reaction to becoming a mother, respondent’s experience of childrearing difficulties, occasion on which the respondent felt that her husband was the "father of their children," respondent’s level of satisfaction with her husband, respondent’s expectations of her husband (4) Reflecting on own way of life Respondent’s familial concerns, roles the respondent always tries to fulfill for her family, how the respondent uses her personal time (as an individual), respondent’s degree of life satisfaction, respondent’s level of satisfaction with her children's junior high school, whether the respondent would choose to be a man or a woman if reborn, respondent’s desired lifestyle if she could restart life |
| Date of Release | 2005/06/16 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Compulsory and pre-school education SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS Children Gender and gender roles |
| Topics in SSJDA | Education/Learning |
| Version | 1 ： 2005-06-16 |
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |