The purpose of this study is to analyze research on mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relation-ship. Also this study is the preliminary research for more scientific and wider studies on the mother-in-law an daughter-in-law relationship. For the analysis 39 articles which had been published from 1963 to 1991 were investigated by research contents research method and research findings. by research contents research method and research findings The main results are as follows: 1) Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship researches are mostly analyzed the causes of conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. 2) Research method used is almost the survey research 3) It is difficult to generalize the research findings because of the unexquisiteness of methode-logy and the difference of the subject.