Project/Area Number |
21K01735
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
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Research Institution | Kindai University |
Principal Investigator |
宮本 多幸 近畿大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (50783180)
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Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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Keywords | grit / gola maximization / IEO / achievement / moderated moderation / process model / general self-efficacy / intrinsic motivation / gola maximisation / life-making / maximization / individual EO / self-commitment |
Outline of Research at the Start |
Two antient Greek philosophers saw the world differently: to Heraclitus, the world is in constant flux while it is, in essence, unchanging to Parmenides. The proposed study, partly drawing from the atheistic existentialism philosophy, endeavours to empirically investigate the relevance and the validity of the long-treasured wisdom for the individual achievement (i.e., be ambitious, resourceful and devoted) in the rapidly changing world.
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Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The literature review continued extending the scope to positive psychology (welling-being, happiness, and good life) and existentialism. (Unfortunately, the planned in-house large-scale pilot study with university students was not conducted. Instead, the face validity of some model constructs was investigated qualitatively with small groups of university students in classes.)
In March 2022, to explore the psychometric properties of the key research model constructs with a broader research population, an online survey titled 'Life-Enriching Project' was conducted with the market research panel members of Cross Marketing, a commercial web survey service organisation. The survey consisted of, among others, the Japanese versions of psychometric measures of the following constructs, Turner et al.'s (2012) 12-item Maximization, Misuraca et al.'s (2015) 4-item Satisficing Subscale, Schwarzer and Jerusalem's (2005) 10-item General Self-Efficacy (Ito, Schwarzer and Jerusalem 2005), Duckworth and Quinn's (2009) 8-item Grit (Nishikawa, Okuue, and Amamiya 2015), Bolton and Lane's (2012) 9-item Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation, and the 4-Type of Motivation drawn from Ryan and Deci's (2000) Self-Determination Theory Continuum. Data were obtained from over 2000 respondents in the 20 to 39 age group who engaged in a life-enriching project for at least six months in the past two years. The data will be analysed to build the foundation for the 2025 data collection and model testing of the proposed 'life-making process model'.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Living with the ailing father while managing the family outside the country has been challenging with growing difficulties. The project is already 9-months behind. I plan to apply for a one-year extension of the project completion. I will conduct an online survey to collect data to test the proposed 'life-making' process model in early 2015 and continue to disseminate the project outcomes throughout 2015 and into early 2016.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In addition to the on-going literature review, this year's research activities will be devoted to the analyses of the life-enriching data and dissemination/publication of the results as the basis for the planned online data collection to test the proposed 'life-making' process model. Taking into account challenges associated with online data collection on a 'life-making' project from panel members of online market research companies as advised by a Cross Marketing staff, the definition of 'life-making' and target respondents need to be carefully refined in order to secure a sufficient sample size with a given effect size.
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