Developmental processes of the independent and interdependent self-concept; A longitudinal study of the life span development from children to elders.
| Project/Area Number |
15530415
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Miyagi Gakuin Women's University (2004-2006)
Nara University (2003) |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKATA Toshitake Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Professor, 学芸学部, 教授 (20008189)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2006
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Keywords | cultural view of self / independent / interdependent self / Japanese culture / longitudinal study / self-schema / life span development model / 発達 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research project is to clarify the developmental processes of the self in Japanese culture. Based on Markus and Kityama's(1991) notion of the independent and inter- dependent self-construals, and on the head investigator's previous findings, a hypothesis that the independent and interdependent construal was internalized in adolescence and middle age and later year respectively, was examined by the following three researches.
(1)The cross-sectional study on about 17,000 children, adolscents, and adults showed that the independent self was more predominant in adults than in children and adolscents and that the interdependent self was strongest in adolscents.
(2)The longitudinal study from later childfood to young adulthood showed almost same tendencies regading the independent and interdependent self as those of shown in the closs-sectional research.
(3)The experimental study on adolscent and elder person showed that interdependent self schema was functioning for either adolscent or elder person, but that independent self schema was working only for elder person.
Based on those results, an life span model on the development of the independent and inter- dependent self in the Japanese culture was proposed.
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