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Gender Identity Development of Adolescent Girls in Modern Japan Society

Research Project

Project/Area Number 05301025
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionWAKO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

INOUE Teruko  Wako University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (90100403)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MITSUMOTO Kazuko  Tokyo Feminist Therapy Centaer, Representative, 代表
HADA Aiko  Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Researcher, 非常勤研究員
KAMEDA Atsuko  Jyumonji Womens College, Associate Professor, 幼児教育学科, 助教授 (10149164)
Project Period (FY) 1993 – 1995
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
KeywordsGender Identity / Ego-Ideal Model / Value-Orientation of Gender Role / Preference of to be a boy / Ambition / School-Culture / Prespective of Self-Image / Reading Carrier of Womens Magazines / 雑誌購読経験 / 性役割規範 / 青春期 / メディア文化 / 伝統的「女らしさ」
Research Abstract

Todays women are in a double-bind. The traditional life-style of women is changing but the social image of femininity still holds strong power. This paper focuses on how adolescent girls develop their gender-identity.
This paper discusses this topic using the data from surveys of four groups during 1993-95 : high school students, technical school student. junior college and university students. In-depth interviews were conducted with 60 girls in all of the students.
The analysis of the results is as follows :
(1)There is wide gap in the image which girls have of what they want to have strong wills and the image which boys have of what they hope girls will be lovely. Girls were orientated towards power and also orientated towards beauty.
(2)70% of girls said that they had wished that they had been born a boy. The desire to be born of the opposite sex is deeply intertwined with gender identity.
(3)Technical school students decide early upon their chosen careers, but university students dont have a clear idea about their career and they decided late.
(4)The reading of girls comics and girls magazines relates to the image of what girls want to be and to their attitude to gender identity.
(5)Adolescent girls are trying to integrate their own desired self-image and the image that is decided by culture. Three patterns were observed. The first was to distance oneself from the real world. The second was to find solace for emptiness in novels about romance. The third was to adapt to social norm of femininity.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1995 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1994 Annual Research Report
  • 1993 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 井上輝子・亀田温子・波田あい子・平川和子: "青春期女子のジェンダー・アイデンティティと自己形成" 女性学研究. 第3号. 80-121 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 波田あい子: "少女たちの夢と不安-「野心」をめぐって" フォーラム(跡見学園女子大学文化学会発行). 14. 15-28 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Teruko, INOUE.et al.: "The Development of Gender Identity in Adolescent Girls." JAPANESE JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES (KEISO SHOBO). No. 3. 80-121 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Aiko, HADA: "Dream and Ambitious in Adolescent Girls" FORLUME (Atomi Womens University Culture Study Group). No.14. 15-28 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 井上輝子・亀田温子・波田あい子・平川和子: "青春期女子のジェンダー・アイデンティティと自己形成" 女性学研究. 第3号. 80-121 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 波田あい子: "少女たちの夢と不安-「野心」をめぐって" フォーラム(跡見学園女子大学文化学会発行). 14. 15-28 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 井上輝子・亀田温子・波田あい子・平川和子: "青春期女子のジェンダー・アイデンティティと自己形成" 女性学研究. 第3号. 80-121 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report

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