한국과 일본 취업모 가정의 조모 역할과 조모와 손자녀의 심리적 복지감에 관한 비교연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study has its focus on the grandparenting role and its effect on the psychological well-being of both grandparents and grandchildren within working mother families of Korea and Japan, from a cross-cultural perspective. The subjects consisted of grandchildren, in the 4th to 6th grade, and their grandparents; 386 pairs of Korean grandchildren-grandparents and 281 pairs of Japanese grandchildren-grandparents. Grandparenting roles are categorized by three roles: successor of traditional culture, supporter and instructor of their grandchildren. Based upon the role theory, the hypothesis have been tested and resulted as the following. First, the degree of role performance and role satisfaction were higher in Korea those that of Japan. Such role performance and satisfaction were higher in rural areas than urban areas, and in families that live together than in families that live separately, in both countries. Second, the relationship between role performance and its satisfaction of grandparenting were greater in Korea than in Japan. Third, the grandparents` role performance and role satisfaction had greater influence on the psychological well-being of grandmothers in Korea than in Japan. Therefore all hypotheses were supported the importance of grandmother`s role and its effect on the psychological well-being of grandparents were greater in Korea than in Japan.