Citation

Ohara M. Jpn. J. Soc. Welf. 2003; 43(2): 46-57.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Nihon Shakai Fukushi Gakkai)

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Abstract

A self-recording questionnaire survey was conducted with 1,538 mothers with children aged six years or under living in Tokyo Metropolitan area. A multifaceted questionnaire was conducted pertaining to mother's child abuse and its frequency, Family Environment Scale (FES), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Dissociation tendency, Maternal Consciousness Scale (negative). The measure of perceived support, and the risk factors of abusive behaviors were also examined. When abusive behaviors and the above mentioned items were analyzed through Multiple Regression Analysis, the number of children (parenting burden), dissociation tendency, presence of characteristically incompatible children (inappropriate parental perception of one's children), conflict (violence in the family), rejection of maternal consciousness (mother's low self-esteem) were selected as being the risk factors of child abuse. The assessment of these risk factors allows family supporters to identity families and children who are at high risk of child abuse, facilitating the implementation of appropriate prevention and treatment interventions.