Kitamura Kotomi, Muto Takashi
Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610.
Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 2003 Apr;74(1):9-18. doi: 10.4992/jjpsy.74.9.
This study examined the relationship between the quality of a middle-aged mother's current relationship with her adult daughter and such indices of her well-being as depressive symptoms and self-definition. A cross-sectional sample of 231 middle-aged women with an adult daughter completed questionnaires. The results showed that middle-aged mothers with a married daughter felt closer to their daughter than did mothers with an unmarried daughter. The association between the quality of mother-daughter relationship and mother's psychological well-being changed, depending on whether the daughter was married or employed, and whether the mother was employed. Among the mothers who were not employed, with a married daughter, a positive mother-daughter relationship was associated with reports of high self-definition and lack of depressive symptoms while the mother's dependence on her daughter had a negative association with her psychological well-being.
本研究考察了中年母亲与成年女儿当前关系的质量与其幸福感指标（如抑郁症状和自我认知）之间的关系。对231名有成年女儿的中年女性进行了横断面抽样调查，并让她们填写问卷。结果显示，女儿已婚的中年母亲比女儿未婚的母亲感觉与女儿更亲近。母女关系质量与母亲心理健康之间的关联会因女儿是否已婚或就业以及母亲是否就业而有所变化。在未就业且女儿已婚的母亲中，积极的母女关系与高自我认知及无抑郁症状的报告相关，而母亲对女儿的依赖与她的心理健康呈负相关。
