本研究以學前幼兒的父母為研究對象，探討其親職壓力，以及可能影響親職壓力的個人與家庭因素。研究者依據Abidian（1992）的觀點，將親職壓力區分為親職愁苦、親子互動失調與難養育幼兒三個構面，並依此編修親職壓力量表作為研究工具。研究發現，首先，無論是父親還是母親樣本，其親職壓力程度都偏高，感受最深的是親職愁苦，即有了孩子之後，必須改變許多自己或是夫妻之間的生活模式，而被「為人父母」的責任給嵌綁住。其次，父親的親職壓力在不同年齡和職業類別上都具有統計上的顯著差異；母親的親職壓力在不同職業類別上，具有統計上的顯著差異。最後，父親親職壓力與母親親職壓力具有顯著的低度正相關。研究者也針對研究結論提出四個對學前幼兒父母親的建議，包含：父母親應適度紓解壓力以擁有較佳的家庭生活、父母親可建立共親職的觀念、工作與家庭調適建議、增加社會支持管道，以及建立良好的溝通管道，維持良善的婚姻關係。
The study aims to understand the condition of parenting stress from
parents with preschool age child and the possible factor of impaction.
According to Abidian (1992) researcher separated parenting stress into the constructions of parental distress, parent-child dysfunctional interaction, and difficult child in order to establishing research framework and addressing modification of questionnaire. The findings of investigation are as follows. The first, both father and mother feel deeply in parental distress because of the change of passive life style. The second, fathers’ parenting stress is influenced by their age and vocational class significantly, and mothers’ parenting stress is affected by their vocational class only. The final, there is low positive relationship between parenting stress of parents significantly. In the last chapter, author made five suggestions to parents with preschool age child like: to make a leisure for better quality of life, to set up the idea of co-parenting, to balance between work and family, to increase the way of social support, and to construct well communication of interaction on parents for maintaining marriage relationship fine.
