The relationship between parents' feelings in rearing and coping

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parents' feelings in rearing and coping. This study was based on a stress model (Folkman & Lazarus, 1988).151 mothers completed five kinds of questionnaires that measured their parenting feelings in rearing, coping and so on. Coping was considered as perimeter between negative feelings and positive feelings in this study. The results were as follows,; (1) avoidance coping was negative relations between positive feelings and (2) solution coping and recreation coping were positive relations between positive feelings. In particular, solution coping was a strong positive relation between positive feelings when feeling anxious about parenting style. Besides recreation coping was a strong positive relation between positive feelings when feeling anxious about children's development. This result suggests that the controllability of stressor influences affects coping