Study of the interplay between self and environment through auto-photography: In young, middle-aged, and aged women

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380900
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Kyoto Notre Dame University
• Principal Investigator: MUKOYAMA Yasuyo 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 心理学部, 教授 (80319475)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 自叙写真 / 自己認知 / auto-photography / アイデンティティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Auto-photography is a method of finding the self by asking participants to express “who am I?” using photographs. In this study, we examined the interplay between self and environment through characteristics of photographic expression of the self of Japanese young, middle-aged, and aged women. We reexamined the classification categories of auto-photographs for young women, renewed the coding system on the trial basis, and made the auto-photographs database. We also developed a personality scale in order to examine relation between auto-photographs and personality. In this study, we found that a large number of participants defined themselves as the category of “things”. We also found that middle-aged and aged women tend to define themselves by selecting the sub-categories of “things”, “time continuality” and “past experiences”.

Free Research Field

社会科学、心理学、パーソナリティ、対人認知