日常事態における社会的比較と文化的自己観--横断資料による発達的検討

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A number of 2880 respondents, devided into six age groups, answered a questionnaire used to measure various aspects of social comparison in everyday life (frequencies, target objects and persons, reasons of engagement in comparison). Subjects belonging to the adolescent (<I>N</I>= 705) and middle-aged (<I>N</I>= 613) groups were administered also scales for measuring the cultural view of self. Hayashi's theory of quantification applied to the comparison responses revealed two types of social comparison: internal/self-directed comparison and the external/other-directed comparison. The adolescent group were found to engage in comparison most frequently, especially in the external/other-directed comparison. This tendency was found most prominently among respondents with high interdependency score as measured by our scale. These results suggest that Japanese adolescent indify with the interdependent view of self to their self schema, mainly through the external/other-directed social comparison.
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