Nowadays it is said that the role of father in a family has changed or has been changing. The purpose of this study is to find serveral factors which are related to Father Image and make the change clear by comparing the present father with the past f...
Nowadays it is said that the role of father in a family has changed or has been changing. The purpose of this study is to find serveral factors which are related to Father Image and make the change clear by comparing the present father with the past father. Futhurmore, it Is also pursued which variables affect those factors.
The subject of the analysis are 400 fathers and 440 secondary school students. The questionaire consisted of 78 items is used for the survey.
Qustions are as follows ;
1. What kinds of factor about father image is appeared?
2. Is there any difference between present father image and past father image?
3. What variables are like which affect Father Image?
The brief results of the analysis are summarized like below ;
1. Major factors about father image can be descirbed in terms of these three perspectives.
1) The image of present father toward students : leadership and fidelity, warmth, brightness, stubborness, nonaffinity.
2) The image of present father : leadership and fidelity, warmth, consideration, stubborness, brightness, nonaffinity, etc.
3) The image of past father : leadership and fidelity, warmth, nonaffinity, brightness, intelligence.
2. There are some differences and commonnesses between present father image and past father image. In the present father image, 「warmth」 factor has greater eigen value and factor loading with more extended items, while 「leadership and fidelity」 factor has greater eigen value and factor loading in the past father image. But, the rest of factors have similiar factor loading, eigen value and items in both cases.
3. The image of present father toward students was shown differently according to the school level of students and sex. And the image of present father was shown differently according to the education level and age which was the same variables in case of the image of past father.
In conclusion, this study showed that Father Image could be summerized in terms of five to eight factors and the point of view about Father Image has changed and is changing.