title: Sense of coherence in mothers and children, family relationships and participation in decision-making at home: an analysis based on Japanese parent-child pair data.
abstract: Children in early adolescence and their mothers were studied to clarify the association between a child's sense of coherence (SOC) and its mother's SOC, the quality of family relationships as gauged by the mother, and the child's positive life experiences at home. An anonymous self-administered group questionnaire was given to all 1540 students of a high school in Tokyo, and a similar questionnaire was sent by mail to their legal guardians. Responses were received from 1505 students (response rate: 97.7%) and 989 legal guardians (response rate: 64.2%); questionnaires completed by legal guardians who were the mothers of the students were paired with the corresponding child's questionnaire. The SOC scores of mothers and students were calculated, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis was performed with the student's SOC as a dependent variable. Results for boys revealed that a mother's SOC was directly related to the child's SOC, regardless of family relationships and participation in decision-making at home. For girls, a mother's SOC was related to family relationships and was indirectly related to the child's SOC through the child's participation in decision-making at home. Results revealed that for both boys and girls, a mother's SOC had an effect on the child's SOC, and this corroborates the hypothesis of Antonovsky.
authors.affiliation: Division of System Control Medicine, Department of Hygiene, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, 1-1-1 Minami-kogushi, Ube-shi, 755-8505, Japan. ttogari-tky@umin.ac.jp
authors.forename: Taisuke
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Togari
authors.forename: Miho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Reika
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Otemori
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yonekura
authors.forename: Yukari
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Miyako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Wako
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires