A study of difficulty in child-care during rapprochement crisis.
OBJECTIVE
To identify the relationship between difficulty in child-care and rapprochement crisis of child.


METHODS
413 mothers whose children attended kindergartens.


METHODS
The mothers were given the questionnaire and asked to complete and return it. The questionnaire involved the difficulty in child-care scale (DCCS), rapprochement crisis scale (RCS).


RESULTS
Four factors were extracted from the RCS : Ambivalence, Closeness, Expansion of way to express, and Instability. The pearson correlation coefficient showed a significant relationship between DCCS and RCS for 4 and 5-year-olds.


CONCLUSIONS
These results suggest the importance of assessing the rapprochement crisis when nurse assist mothers with difficulty in child-care.
Sato
Yukiko
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Department of Nursing, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Science, 260 Kamiyanagi, Yamagata City, 990-2212, Japan. ysato@yachts.ac.jp
Shiwaku
Hitoshi
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001007:Anxiety / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002654:Child Care / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires