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ADAPTATION PROCESS TO ANOTHER CULTURE INDUCED BY DOMESTIC MOVE

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610134
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 教育・社会系心理学
Research InstitutionKOBE UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

UTSUKI Narisuke  Faculty of Cross-Cultural Studies Professor, 国際文化学部, 教授 (70283851)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SHIMABUKURO Tsuneo  Faculty of Education, University of Ryukyu Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (30178959)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
KeywordsLocal culture / College life / Cultural adaptation / Domestic Move / Coping / 国内の移動 / 大学生
Research Abstract

There are three new types of cultural environment for a freshman/woman newly enrolled in a college/university: college life, local community, and independent single life. Local students will be involved in new college life only. However, the students from other than the local district supposedly face with a new local community, and, if they cannot commute, they have to live single in a dormitory or an apartment. As local communities, Kansai and Okinawa areas were chosen and university students were surveyed as to difficulties they first met, changes of life style, and feelings about local community by using a questionnaire or semi-structured interviews.
The data from 244 students in University of Ryukyu and 161 students in Kobe University were analyzed. Even though Kansai and Okinawa are belonging to very different cultures historically, many difficulties, changes of life style, and feelings about local community were quite similar. Non-local students showed more difficulties and a correlational analyses depicted the number of difficulties increase when time and financial costs to get home increase. Higher increase the cost to get back home, more likely the students can put up with their solitude. On the other hand, longer become the time to get back home, more likely the students have a negative image to the local community.
A student learn something new to cope with a specific problem. Sometimes they escape from the problem, or just to put up with. Adaptation to a new cultural environment is not a simple process as a function of time, but a whole set in which each difficulty and problem was coped with and overcome. Even adaptation process itself produces new difficulties that did not exist at the beginning. The same process could be observed in cultural adaptation process the people experience in another country.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 島袋恒男, 宇津木成介: "大学生の国内移動に伴う地域文化への適応"日本心理学会第65回大会発表論文集. 818 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 宇津木成介, 島袋恒男: "大学生の国内移動に伴う地域文化への適応(2)"日本心理学会第66回大会発表論文集. 72 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SHIMABUKURO Tsuneo & UTSUKI Narisuke: "ADAPTATION PROCESS TO ANOTHER CULTURE INDUCED BY DOMESTIC MOVE (In Japanese)"Proceedings of the 65th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association. 818

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] UTSUKI Narisuke & SHIMABUKURO Tsuneo: "ADAPTATION PROCESS TO ANOTHER CULTURE INDUCED BY DOMESTIC MOVE (2) (In Japanese)"Proceedings of the 66th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association. 72

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 島袋恒男: "大学生の国内移動に伴う地域文化への適応"日本心理学会第65回大会発表論文集. 818 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 宇津木成介: "大学生の国内移動に伴う地域文化への適応(2)"日本心理学会第66回大会発表論文集. 72 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 島袋恒男, 宇津木成介: "大学生の国内移動に伴う地域文化への適応"日本心理学会第65回大会発表論文集. 818 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2001-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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