Psychological vulnerability and social adaptation on friendship among present-day adolescents

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530811
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Okada Tsutomu 金沢大学, 人間科学系, 教授 (10233339)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 現代青年 / ふれ合い恐怖的心性 / 対人恐怖的心性 / 友人関係 / 自己愛

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to explore the vulnerability on friendship among present-day adolescents.Surveys toward senior high school and college students to confirm the structure of "commu-phobic tendency"scale.The results yielded that adolescetns who showed high in "withdraw from others" subscale had high anxiety with emotional close others rather than with emotionally distant ones.On the other hand,adolescents who showed high in "to feel difficulties to moderate their relationship" subscale had high anxiety at the situation with emotionally distant others.These results suggest that the "withdraw from others" subscale shows the fundamental characteristics of the commu-phobic tendency,while the subscale of "to feel difficulties to moderate their relationship" shows the characteristics of common anthropophobic tendency.

Free Research Field

青年心理学