Developmental Research of Evaluative Scale of an Eco-map

2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 13610215
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
• Research Institution: Oita University
• Principal Investigator: HIRATSUKA Ryoko Oita University, Graduate School of Social Service Administration, Professor, 福祉社会科学研究科, 教授 (40257556)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UEDA Toshiyuki Doshisya University, Literature, Part-time Lecturer, 嘱託講師 ; FUJITA Hirohito Aichi Prefectural University, Literature, Lecturer, 文学部, 講師 (30326128) ; KUBO Miki Meijigakuin University, Sociology, Associate Professor, 社会学部, 助教授 (10279127)
• Project Period (FY): 2001 – 2003
• Keywords: eco-map / relation between human-being and ones environments / multi-dimensional, holistic, synthetic understanding / evaluative scale / model of evaluation / experimentation of eases of social work practice / appropriate and wide extent of each evaluative scale / digital evaluative method and analogue evaluative method of analyzing outcomes

Research Abstract

We aim to develop an evaluative scale model of an eco-map of welfare service users transacting with their environments multi-dimensionally, holistically, synthetically for social workers helping their clients properly. Method of this research is to design an evaluative scale of eco-map, applying it to cases of social work with the cooperation of social workers.
Outcomes and tasks of our research are following ;
1)We finally developed an evaluative scale model (new model), improving first and second model. We devised to keep validity of it, making a point of and including physical environment.
2)Also we made an easy type of explanation of evaluation and booklet of concept of our research and the model to help social workers to evaluate accurately.
3)19 social workers applied a new model to their cases. We could see that our new model had nearly perfect stability of scale. So, we almost achieved our goal of development of an evaluative scale.
4)We analyzed outcomes with 3 method. 3 methods are ; (1)relating evaluative contents to elements of environments, called analogue method (2)relating marks to 4 clusters of evaluative contents which were mapped, called mixed model -analogue method and digital method (3)statistical method applied I case to as an experiment, called digital method. But we would like to develop further analysis method.
5)We could extract holistic characteristic of relation of human-being and ones environments. We also hope to analyze more details of outcomes.
6)Our research is to develop an evaluative scale mainly. In the future, we would like to develop a new method of analyzing cases collected and synthesizing it, then to build up theory of relation of human -being and ones environments.