A Self-conceptual Descriptive Study of Childrearing Women and Their Family

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  • Yamazaki Akemi
    Special Division of the Science of Midwifery College of Medical Technology, Kyoto University

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  • 育児期の家族の中で生活している女性の自己概念
  • Analyses of “The Self as a Mother” and “The Self as an Individual with a Life of Their Own”
  • 母親としての自己・母親として以外の自己の分析

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A retrospective exploratory-descriptive design was used to describe the modern Japanese women's self-concept during the early stages of childrearing. The purpose of this research was to explore how a Japanese woman's self-concept changes after she becomes a mother. Seven women, aged 28 to 38, from a purpose sample, were interviewed at home using the-semi-structured interview guide.<BR>The core category, “someone needs me”, provided the more significant indicator of women's self-concept, reflecting the importance of their existence to others. Findings indicated that the modern Japanese woman seeks to be needed by two parties: their children and society. One of these needs originates in the self as a mother. The other originates in the self as an individual with a life of their own. In the acceptance, through family life, of the fulfillment of the two selves,: “myself needed by my child” and “myself needed by society”, the self-concept of modern Japanese women during the early stages of childrearing was defined.

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