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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The development of conceptions of adult authority and personal-entitlement

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09610104
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 InstitutionSaitama University

Principal Investigator

SHITO Toshimoto  Saitama University, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (30187504)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NINOMIYA Katsumi  Aichi-Gakuin University, Department of Information and Policy Studies, Professor, 情報社会政策学部, 教授 (20135271)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
Keywordssocial domain theory / social rule / social cognitive development / moral development / parent-child relationship / school education / authority / self-entitlement / adolescent
Research Abstract

The purpose of this research was to examine the concept of adult authority and self-entitlement in Japanese children.
Parents and teachers of young children disciplined their children neither severely nor indulgently. They rejected children's assertion in moral and prudence issues, and accepts their resistance in personal issues. Children over 4 years old have already possessed the concept of personal domain. They display the consciousness of self-entitlement in personal and conventional domain. Their demonstrations of autonomy over conventional domain cause trouble with their teachers and parents. This kind of conflicts were found in kindergarten and continued during adolescent.
The consciousness of self-entitlement became high from school-age children through junior high school students. The highest consciousness was found in the time of high school. Teachers of adolescents thought decision of students' personal appearance (personal issue) was not under the authority of teachers, but they believed they authorized to determine about moral and conventional events in school.
In summary, children from preschoolers to undergraduate students neither disobey unilaterally to adult authority, nor are obedient to them blindly. Children accept and repulse to adult authority according to nature of the issue. The concept of personal domain exists already in preschool period and children demonstrate self-entitlement in personal and conventional domain. Their autonomy over conventional domain conflicts with adult discipline. This kind of conflicts were found in kindergarten and continued during adolescent. Children's social orientation is heterogeneity and developed in multidimensional situations. The development of autonomous morality in Japanese society was discussed in terms of social domain theory.

  • Research Products

    (13 results)

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All Publications (13 results)

  • [Publications] 首藤敏元: "児童の対人関係と社会性の発達"教育心理学年報(日本教育心理学会). 第37集. 55-65 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 首藤敏元: "教師の社会的規則の関する領域概念"埼玉大学紀要教育学部. 47巻1号. 39-49 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 首藤敏元: "児童の社会道徳的逸脱に対する教師の判断と理由づけ"埼玉大学紀要教育学部. 47巻2号. 25-38 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 首藤敏元: "児童の社会道徳的判断の発達"埼玉大学紀要教育学部. 48巻1号. 75-88 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 二宮克美: "展望 : 権威概念に関する心理学的研究(1)"愛知学院大学情報社会政策学部. 第1巻. 153-161 (1999)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 二宮克美: "展望 : 権威概念に関する心理学的研究(2)"愛知学院大学情報社会政策学部. 第2巻. 75-86 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 首藤敏元: "遊びと心の教育(94-105頁) 「幼児期の心の教育(真仁田昭・内藤俊史編)」"日本図書センター. 272 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Shuto, T.: "Children's interpersonal relations and social development."Annual Report of Educational Psychology in Japan. 37. 55-65 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Shuto, T.: "Teacher's concepts of social rules."Journal of Saitama University, (Faculty of Education). 47(1). 39-49 (1988)

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  • [Publications] Shuto, T.: "teachers' judgments and reasoning about children's socio-moral transgressions."Journal of Saitama University, (Faculty of Education). 47(2). 25-38 (1988)

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  • [Publications] Shuto, T.: "The development of socio-moral judgments in Japanese children."Journal of Saitama University, (Faculty of Education). 48(1). 75-88 (1989)

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  • [Publications] Ninomiya, K.: "Review : Psychological studies on the conception of authority (1)."Journal of Aichi-Gakuin University (Department of Information and Policy Studies). 1. 153-161 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Ninomiya, K.: "Review : Psychological studies on the conception of authority (2)."Journal of Aichi-Gakuin University (Department of Information and Policy Studies). 2. 75-86 (1999)

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Published: 2001-10-23  

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