2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Effect of affective traits on adolescent's friendship

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19730416
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Educational psychology
Research Institution	Toyo University
Principal Investigator	ENOMOTO Junko Toyo University, 文学部, 准教授 (50408952)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	心理学 / 教育心理学
Research Abstract	This research project examines the effect of affective traits on adolescent's friendship. It was shown by a series of researches that (1) based on the analysis of the adolescents' interpretation of ambiguous friendship figures, the affective traits which have effects on interpretation of figures would be negative affective traits rather than positive ones, (2) adolescents with lower negative affective traits tend to have positive interpretation so as to be capable of changing situations by themselves for friends, while those adolescents with higher negative affective traits tend to show the interpretation of victim mindset. These results suggest that affective traits would have a strong effect on interpretation of friendship situations, and adolescents especially with negative affection tend to take friendship-related events as victim mindset, and possibly to make it difficult to maintain friendship.