The Relationships among Cognition of Mother-Child Relationship, Children's Need for Approval and Achievement Motive

本研究においては，小学校5～6年生とその母親を対象として，子どもが認知している親子関係と子どもの承認欲求，達成動機との関わりと，親子関係に対する親と子どもの認知差について検討し，以下のような興味深い結果が得られた。まず第一に，本研究で承認欲求の測定に用いた「SDSC」の結果は，子どもが親子関係を良好であると認知しているほど，高得点であることが明らかになった。第二に，子どもの承認欲求が強いほど，子どもの達成動機も高かった。第三に，本研究で「AM-SCT」という文章完成法による達成動機の測定を試みたことにより，子どもの達成動機が多様な方向性をもっていることが明らかになった。第四に，親子関係における母子間の認知差は，親子関係を子どもが良好であると認知している場合には小さく，そうでない場合に大きいことが明らかになった。This study examined as the subjects of fifth and sixth grade school-aged children, the relationships among children's cognition of mother-child relationship, need for approval and achievement motive, and the difference of cognition of mother-child relationship between children and their mothers. We obtained interesting results as follows : First, the better children evaluated their mother-child relationship, the higher was the score of “SDSC” that we used to measure children's need for approval. Second, children's need for approval increased with children's achievement motive. Third, it was found by “AM-SCT” that measures children's achievement motive with a sentence completion method, that children's achievement motive had a variety of types. Finally, the difference of cognition between children and their mothers was small when the children recognized their mother-child relationship to be good, and the difference was large otherwise