In recent years, with the increase in the employment rate of mothers, the number of children who use childcare for infants and after-school children's clubs (school childcare) for elementary school children is increasing rapidly. As a result, children spend more and more time outside the home, and parents and children spend less time together at home. We assessed how children perceive this situation from the children's apperception test (CAT) which is a projective test and analyzed the

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... hip between the representation that the child has for the mother, QOL, and self-consciousness. The participants were 72 children (38 boys, 41 girls ; from 5-year-old children just before school to the third grade of elementary school, using the CAT (No.3 & 7), the elementary school version QOL scale (Shibata, 2012), self an examination of the dynamic process of consciousness development (Tsuzuki, 1981) and a new edition of the Goodenough draw-a-man test (Kobayashi, 2017). From the classification of the CAT assessment, about half of the elementary school students