1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
An investgation of development of self-determination in children
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07451028
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
教育・社会系心理学
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| Research Institution | TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
ARAI Kunijiro TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY,Psychology, Professor, 心理学系, 教授 (60015914)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAJIMA Hirohito TOKYO SEITOKU UNIVERSITY,Humanites, Lecturer, 人文学部, 講師 (20282311)
FUJIU Hideyuki TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY,Psychology, Associate Professor, 心理学系, 助教授 (40251003)
WATANABE Yayoi SIZUOKA UNIVERSITY,Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (00210956)
SUGIHARA Kazuaki TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY,Psychology, Professor, 心理学系, 教授 (30017777)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | self-determination / development of self-determination / self-determination experience / self-determination scale / moral judgment / motivation for learning / social / individual orientation / other-determination |
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| Research Abstract |
This paper investigated the development of self-determination in elementary school children, junior high school pupils and senior high school pupils. The areas of self-determination experience investigatedwere waking up alone, buying clothes and socks, initiating homework, determining contents and time of homework, cram school attendance, selecting clubs in school, determining class duties, doing chores, spending monthly allowance and New Year's money, deciding hairstyle, continuing on to senior high school, and choosing an occupation, etc..
The main results were were as follows.
(1) Almost all the children in the Tokyo metropolitan area showed a low level of self-deter mination.
(2) Almost all the children all over Japan showed a low level of self-determination also.
(3) Children showed higher approval of their self-determination than did their parents.
(4) Children and parents in Japan and Korea did not show different behavior and opinions concerning self-determination.
(5) Scales of behavior and consciousness of self-determination in children were constructed, and the reliability and validity of the scales were confirmed.
(6) There was a close correlation between development of self-determination and development of moral judgment.
(7) There was a close correlation between development of self-determination and development of motivation for learning.
(8) There was a closer correlation between development of self-determination and individual orientation than social orientation.
(9) While self-determination positively affected activity motivation, interest, self involvement, self responsibility, self confidence, and devising and striving of children, other-determination negatively affected them.
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