A Comparative Study on the Relationship among Parenting Stress, Family Coping Patterns, and Quality of Life of the First time Fathers of General Occupations and Those Working in Hsinchu Science Park

• Main Authors: Chia-Ling Li, 李佳玲
• Other Authors: Pei-Fan Mu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80178243775264627143

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 臨床暨社區護理研究所 === 101 === Owing to the change of time, many countries have started to view the promotion of technological development as their main policy, and hope that the application and promotion of the results of technological development can speed up economic growth and maintain national competitiveness. The social expectation to parents’ parenting roles has been changed slightly as well. With the cultural transformation of paternal role, parenting stress is no longer faced by mothers, and the traditional role of fathers has been changed. In different family life cycles, families have to adapt to such a transformation to achieve the best quality of life of fathers. The purpose of this comparative study is to investigate the correlation among parenting stress, family adjustment and adaptation model, and quality of life of fathers in families with the first time father. This cross-sectional study used purposive sampling and structured questionnaires to collect the data from fathers raising 18-month-old children at hospitals in Hsinchu. The data of 140 fathers meeting the inclusion criteria were collected. The subjects were divided into two groups (each of them included 70 subjects, respectively). One group was the fathers of general occupations, while the other was the fathers working in Hsinchu Science Park. This study used structured questionnaires as the research tool, and the subjects were requested to complete the questionnaires on their own. The content included four parts,“family background information sheet,”“short-form parenting stress scale,”“family health response scale,” and “WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version.” The questionnaires were used to measure fathers’ demographic variables, parenting stress, family adjustment and adaptation situation, and quality of life. The research results are as follows:(1) The parenting stress perceived by the two groups of fathers from the highest to the lowest are in the order as follows: parenting predicaments, difficult children, and disordered parent-child interaction. The family adjustment and adaptation models used by fathers (from the most frequently used one to the least frequently one) are in the order as follows: family integration, cooperation, and optimism; medical communication and negotiation; social support, self-esteem, and psychological comfort. The quality of life of fathers in the group of general occupations from the highest to the lowest are: physiological health aspect, social relationship aspect, environmental aspect, general measurement, and psychological aspect. The quality of life of fathers in the group of Hsinchu Science Park from the highest to the lowest are: social relationship aspect, physiological health aspect, psychological aspect, environmental aspect, and general measurement.(2) The overall quality of life of fathers of general occupations varies with variables, such as “health status of parents”, “religious belief”, “attendance in prenatal education classes”, etc. The quality of life of fathers whose parents’ health status is good, who have religious belief, and who attended prenatal education classes is better. The overall quality of life of fathers working in Hsinchu Science Park varies with variables, such as “wife’s level of education”, “father’s health status”, “other elder family requiring care”, etc. The quality of life of fathers whose wife’ level of education is higher, whose fathers’ health status is good, and who do not have other elder family requiring care is better.(3) The overall quality of life of fathers of general occupations is highly significantly correlated with overall parenting stress and various aspects of parenting stress. The overall quality of life of fathers working in Hsinchu Science Park is highly significantly correlated with overall parenting stress and various aspects of parenting stress, family adjustment and adaptation model and their various aspects.(4) The variable which can effectively predict the overall quality of life of fathers of general occupations is parenting predicaments, and the total variance explained is 25.4%. The variable which can effectively predict the overall quality of life of fathers working in Hsinchu Science Park is parenting predicaments andresponse type III, and the total variance explained is 41.3%. It is hoped that the research results can be provided as reference to assist nursing personnel in understanding the background information of families with 18-month-old children and developing relevant medical and nursing care measures to help families adjust to the impact of the join of new member, achieve the objective of improving quality of life, and indirectlystabilize the balance in family.