A Study of Relations of Parenting Stress and Happiness for Mothers with Preschool Children

• Main Authors: Chia-Lien Kang, 康家蓮
• Other Authors: Ming Lu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97675774762549864930

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 幼兒與家庭教育學系碩士班 === 100 === This study aimed to investigate the difference between parenting stress and happiness for mothers' with preschool children with different background variables. Furthermore, it also investigated the correlation between mothers' parenting stress and happiness. This investigation was based on a questionnaire survey which included the mothers' whose children attend kindergarten in Taipei area as the research subjects. There were 553 valid samples through purposive sampling. The Parenting Stress Scale and Chinese Happiness Scale (CHI) Starter Edition were used as the research tools. The descriptive statistics, one-way multivariate analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and multiple stepwise regression analysis were used as data analysis. The major findings of this study were as follows: 1. The stress of mothers with preschool children: there was positive correlation between both "working conditions" and “economic conditions” and the parenting stress for mothers' with preschool children in the different background variables. 2. The happiness of mothers with preschool children: there was a positive correlation between both “age” and “education level” and happiness for the mothers', whereas “economic conditions” showed negative correlation to it. 3. There was negative correlation between the happiness and stress for mothers' with preschool children. Moreover, the aspects of the pressure of the external environment, the pressure of the parent-child interaction, the pressure of "life adjustment", and the pressure of "social interaction" all showed significant negative results to the aspect of happiness for mothers' with preschool children. It meaned that the higher the parenting stress for mothers' with preschool children was, the lower of their happiness is, and vice versa.