| Summary: | 碩士 === 致遠管理學院 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 97 === A Study on the Life Adjustment of Young Children to Intergenerational Child Rearing
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to understand the life adjustment performance and its incoming influence for young children from intergenerational child-rearing families. This study implemented both questionnaire surveys and deep interview analysis. We designed “intergenerational child-rearing life adjustment questionnaires” and employed a general survey of big class teachers in Pinton County, in both public and private kindergartens. The number of valid questionnaires was 523 sets and the retrieving rate was 82.8%. Along with those, we had personal interviews with 2 kindergarten teachers, 2 grandmothers and 2 young children from intergenerational child-rearing families.
一、The research purposes were
（一）To learn about the life adjustment performance of young children form different backgrounds.
（二）To analysize the relationship between reasons for intergenerational care and life adjustment performance of intergenerational child rearing.
（三）To research the relationship between types of intergenerational care and life adjustment performance of intergenerational child rearing.
二、The research results and discoveries
（一）The intergenerational child rearing backgrounds:
1. Relating to gender, subjects were half male and half female. Relating to ranking, elders were the majority.
2. The main caregivers were grandparents rearing together with primary education diplomas, age 61-70 as the majority; the number of rearing grandchildren was mainly 2 per household; rearing time was mostly from birth until present; the majority of economic sources were grandfathers having personal income and grandmothers supplied with income from parents. The majority of economic situations were mostly stable.
（二）Main reason for intergenerational child rearing – both parents needed to work.
（三）Types of intergenerational child rearing – all day long was the majority.
（四）Life adjustment performance
1. Relating to gender, females performed better than males; relating to living areas, normal districts were better than isolated island districts and remote districts.
2. Different graduation levels, health situation, ages, economic source, and economic status were the primary factors that influenced life adjustment.
3. For life adjustment, young children’s personal adjustment was the worst, kindergarten adjustment was better developed and family adjustment was the best.
4. If the reason for this kind of care was two working parents, children had better life adjustment as opposed to those whose parents got divorced, separated or re-married.
5. With the rearing type in which on weekends parents took over the rearing, young children had better life adjustment than those who had whole week long grandparents rearing and parents rearing only irregularly.
According to the results and discoveries, we offer suggestions for parents,
grandparents, teachers, kindergartens and future studies.
Key words: intergenerational child-rearing families, life adjustment
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