The Effects of Marital Support, Social Network Support, and Parenting Stress on Parenting: Self-Efficacy among Mothers of Young Children in Japan

Autor/in	Suzuki, Sawako
Titel	The Effects of Marital Support, Social Network Support, and Parenting Stress on Parenting: Self-Efficacy among Mothers of Young Children in Japan
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Research, 8 (2010) 1, S.40-66 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-718X
DOI	10.1177/1476718X09345506
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Structural Equation Models; Self Efficacy; Child Rearing; Criticism; Statistical Significance; Foreign Countries; Grade 2; Social Networks; Marriage; Social Support Groups; Stress Variables; Family Relationship; Surveys; Well Being; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Kindererziehung; Kritik; Ausland; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Ehe; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden
Abstract	This study investigated whether Japanese women's perceived marital and social support affect their parenting self-efficacy directly or indirectly through their levels of parenting stress. Participants were 98 mothers of children in the second grade living in Sapporo or Osaka, Japan. Data collected through surveys were submitted to a structural equation modeling. Results showed that marital support, mothers-in-law support, and friend support each lowered women's parenting stress, and the low stress in turn increased women's parenting self-efficacy; however, the indirect effects of mothers-in-law support and friends support on parenting self-efficacy only approached statistical significance. The support from the women's own mothers directly affected women's parenting self-efficacy while the criticism from own mothers dampened women's parenting self-efficacy indirectly by increasing their levels of stress. This study suggests that the criticism targeted to women from family and friends are detrimental to their psychological well-being, which in turn affects their parenting self-efficacy. (Contains 2 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10