Development of support program for Japanese children's ability of improving interpersonal conflict resolution strategies

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530865
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Aichi University of Education
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI NOBUKO 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (70387497)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MATSUMOTO Mariko 名古屋大学, 心の発達支援研究実践センター, 教授 (80229575) ; MORITA Miyako 名古屋大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (80210178)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 対人交渉能力発達支援 / 対人葛藤解決方略 / 承認・被侵害感 / 意見相違場面 / 日本人児童 / フィンランド

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of these studies were to examine the relationship between interpersonal negotiation strategies and the sense of adaptation in Japanese elementary school classes, and to compare the interpersonal negotiation strategies of Japanese and Finnish children in relation to their school lives to examine the characteristics of Japanese children.
The main results were as follows: 1) Children with high scores for sense of acceptance and low scores for sense of insecurity are more likely to employ reciprocal strategies, and less likely to employ unilateral strategies, than children with low scores for sense of acceptance and high scores for sense of insecurity. 2) The results clearly indicated self-transforming orientations in Japanese children and other-transforming orientations in Finnish children. This was marked at the 8th grade level. Furthermore, we examined the interpersonal negotiation strategies features of Japanese children who were housed in welfare institutions.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学