Social psychological study on homeless people's working and independence support based on applied drama

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590138
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University (2015-2016); Kurume University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Fujimoto Manabu 立命館大学, 教育開発推進機構, 准教授 (00461468)
• Research Collaborator: ADACHI Kazunori ; Otsuka Emiko
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ホームレス / 社会適応スキル / フォーラムシアター / 就労自立支援 / スキルトレーニング / SWITCH

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The "SWITCH" to measure social aptitude skills necessary for homeless people’s working and independence were developed. These scales consisted of four factors as sociability, wittedness, inequitable treatment receptivity, cheating receptivity. In addition, Due to a demand of the working support center, a primary screening test of developmental disorder was devised. This test is utilized to distinguish whether an inmate should receive a diagnosis of a psychiatrist.
Based on the forum theater, a program to train homeless people’s social aptitude skills was developed, and this was carried out for 3 years while refining procedures and scenarios. It was confirmed that the final version of the program had an improving effect on three skills as sociability, inequitable treatment receptivity, and cheating receptivity.

Free Research Field

社会心理学