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Parenting Self-Efficacy and Social Support in Japan and the United StatesSaint Mary's College of California, Moraga, ss12{at}stmarys-ca.edu
University of California, Berkeley
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Children Now, Oakland, California To understand the conditions that give rise to parenting self-efficacy in Japan and the United States, the authors have investigated its relation to the perceptions of support available to mothers of children in the final year of preschool (N = 235; n = 121 in United States, n = 114 in Japan). Hierarchical regression analysis indicates that in both countries, women who experience higher parenting self-efficacy report more positive childhood memories of parental support and greater satisfaction with husband’s and friends’ support. Mothers in the United States are significantly more self-efficacious than are mothers in Japan, even after controlling for the effects of the support predictors. A follow-up mediational analysis reveals that Japanese women’s lower levels of parenting self-efficacy are partially attributable to their low satisfaction with husband’s support.
Key Words: parenting self-efficacy • social support • cross-cultural differences • mothers • Japan • childhood memory
This version was published on November
1, 2009 Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 30, No. 11,
1505-1526 (2009) |
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