Three in four Japanese fathers don?t communicate sufficiently with their children

By Ken Y-N ( February 27, 2012 at 23:57) ? Filed under Polls, Society

As a break from the recent flood of goo Research, here is iShare looking at intra-family weekday communication.

Demographics

Over the 25th and 26th of January 2012 683 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service who were married, in employment, had children in primary school or younger, and lived with their spouse and children completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.1% of the sample were male, 5.6% in their twenties, 52.6% in their thirties, and 41.9% in their forties.

Question six in particular might look a little out of place, but that is because the survey was sponsored by Logicool (Logitech) on the launch of their wide screen HD 1080 pixel web camera Logicool HD Pro Webcam c920. They also sponsored a second survey as part of their promotional campaign, but I haven?t translated it yet.

In Q1 and Q3 I don?t know if they are asking people to measure the time that they are in the same vicinity, specifically different rooms in the same house, or if they are asking when people are in the same room.

Q1: On an average weekday, about how long do you spend time together with your spouse, excluding in bed? (Sample size=683)

?	All	Male N=342	Female N=341
Less than an hour	9.8%	6.1%	13.5%
One to two hours	16.1%	17.0%	15.2%
Two to three hours	23.7%	25.4%	22.0%
Three to four hours	17.7%	19.9%	15.5%
Four to five hours	13.3%	13.2%	13.5%
Five to six hours	6.7%	7.3%	6.2%
Six to seven hours	2.9%	3.2%	2.6%
Seven to eight hours	1.3%	0.6%	2.1%
Eight hours or more	8.3%	7.3%	9.4%

Q2: On an average weekday, do you feel you communicate with your spouse? (Sample size=683)

?	All	Male N=342	Female N=341
Yes, sufficiently	30.7%	30.7%	30.8%
Yes, but not sufficiently (to SQ)	59.0%	60.5%	57.5%
No, not at all (to SQ)	10.2%	8.8%	11.7%

Q2SQ: What things do you worry about regarding insufficient communication with your spouse? (Sample size=473, multiple answer)

?	All	Male N=237	Female N=236
I don?t notice their worries, dissatisfactions	41.6%	46.4%	36.9%
Our mutual love gets cooler	36.8%	40.9%	32.6%
We have differences regarding childrearing	36.4%	38.0%	34.7%
We lose our shared interests	29.0%	22.4%	35.6%
We have differences regarding use of money	28.8%	30.0%	27.5%
We have differences regarding life plans	26.4%	26.6%	26.3%
My position as a spouse gets weaker	22.4%	16.9%	28.0%
We have a lack of awareness of each other?s social circles	12.7%	12.7%	12.7%
Other	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%
Nothing in particular	17.5%	16.0%	19.1%

Q3: On an average weekday, about how long do you spend time together with your children, excluding in bed? (Sample size=683)

?	All	Male N=342	Female N=341
Less than an hour	7.9%	15.2%	0.6%
One to two hours	14.6%	26.6%	2.6%
Two to three hours	18.9%	24.0%	13.8%
Three to four hours	16.5%	16.4%	16.7%
Four to five hours	12.2%	7.9%	16.4%
Five to six hours	10.7%	4.7%	16.7%
Six to seven hours	3.7%	1.8%	5.6%
Seven to eight hours	1.2%	0.3%	2.1%
Eight hours or more	14.3%	3.2%	25.5%

Q4: On an average weekday, do you feel you communicate with your children? (Sample size=683)

?	All	Male N=342	Female N=341
Yes, sufficiently	36.5%	26.0%	46.9%
Yes, but not sufficiently (to SQ)	57.4%	62.3%	52.5%
No, not at all (to SQ)	6.1%	11.7%	0.6%

Q4SQ: What things do you worry about regarding insufficient communication with your children? (Sample size=434, multiple answer)

?	All	Male N=253	Female N=181
I?ll miss out on watching them grow up	49.8%	50.2%	49.2%
I don?t notice their worries, dissatisfactions	47.9%	42.3%	55.8%
They won?t listen to what I say to them	29.7%	25.7%	35.4%
I have a lack of awareness of their social circles	27.4%	25.3%	30.4%
My position as a parent gets weaker	23.5%	27.7%	17.7%
I won?t know their joys	18.0%	19.8%	15.5%
They?ll become distant from me	16.6%	22.9%	7.7%
Other	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
Nothing in particular	13.1%	14.2%	11.6%

Q5: Have you kept videos of your children?s growth? (Sample size=683)

?	All	Male N=342	Female N=341
Yes	71.9%	71.3%	72.4%
No but want to	18.9%	18.4%	19.4%
No, and don?t plan to	9.2%	10.2%	8.2%

Q6: Would you like to show off your children?s growth to geographically-distant friends and family? (Sample size=683)

?	All	Male N=342	Female N=341
Yes	71.0%	69.6%	72.4%
No	29.0%	30.4%	27.6%

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