研究開始時の研究の概要 |
Two antient Greek philosophers saw the world differently: to Heraclitus, the world is in constant flux while it is, in essence, unchanging to Parmenides. The proposed study, partly drawing from the atheistic existentialism philosophy, endeavours to empirically investigate the relevance and the validity of the long-treasured wisdom for the individual achievement (i.e., be ambitious, resourceful and devoted) in the rapidly changing world.
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研究実績の概要 |
The literature review continued extending the scope to positive psychology (welling-being, happiness, and good life) and existentialism. (Unfortunately, the planned in-house large-scale pilot study with university students was not conducted. Instead, the face validity of some model constructs was investigated qualitatively with small groups of university students in classes.)
In March 2022, to explore the psychometric properties of the key research model constructs with a broader research population, an online survey titled 'Life-Enriching Project' was conducted with the market research panel members of Cross Marketing, a commercial web survey service organisation. The survey consisted of, among others, the Japanese versions of psychometric measures of the following constructs, Turner et al.'s (2012) 12-item Maximization, Misuraca et al.'s (2015) 4-item Satisficing Subscale, Schwarzer and Jerusalem's (2005) 10-item General Self-Efficacy (Ito, Schwarzer and Jerusalem 2005), Duckworth and Quinn's (2009) 8-item Grit (Nishikawa, Okuue, and Amamiya 2015), Bolton and Lane's (2012) 9-item Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation, and the 4-Type of Motivation drawn from Ryan and Deci's (2000) Self-Determination Theory Continuum. Data were obtained from over 2000 respondents in the 20 to 39 age group who engaged in a life-enriching project for at least six months in the past two years. The data will be analysed to build the foundation for the 2025 data collection and model testing of the proposed 'life-making process model'.
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今後の研究の推進方策 |
In addition to the on-going literature review, this year's research activities will be devoted to the analyses of the life-enriching data and dissemination/publication of the results as the basis for the planned online data collection to test the proposed 'life-making' process model. Taking into account challenges associated with online data collection on a 'life-making' project from panel members of online market research companies as advised by a Cross Marketing staff, the definition of 'life-making' and target respondents need to be carefully refined in order to secure a sufficient sample size with a given effect size.
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