A Study on Subjective Well-Being between Chinese and Japanese Adolescents

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(1)AS加dy㎝S㎜bj㏄tiveWe11−Bei㎎b肺㏄m CbimeseamdJa脾meseAdo1os㏄耐s 学校教育学専攻学校心理学コース M10031H 祁秋夢 ImtI．0dlICtiOI1. to youngsters．It is suggested that危e1ing a切ustment in. S㎞ce psychology is the scientific study of humanity，. school cam1ot be ignore in evaluating students’1i胎．. “what is the good1晩”is one of the most importaIlt. Moreover，Yamamoto＆Wapner（1992）fo㎜d that the. topics needed to be debated and discussed（Ueda，. balance in the廿ansaction process which people a脆。ted. Yoshimori＆Y此ura，1992）．One approach to defining. by environmenta−asp㏄ts and people make themselves. the good life is happiness．Recently，m勾。r pro錺ess has. actively capable to cope with an environment ca11ed. been nlade in conceptualization of “Su勾ective. “adjustment state”．Thereibre，肋ere is a雌er痂血e on曲e. We11−Behg”（co㎜only abbreviatedas SWB），which. 缶eeli㎎of schoo1adjustment trait c01Telati㎝s of SWB. me㎜s exactly the same thing to happiness．．. which need to be investigated．The second purpose of. αearly，there are substantial di脆rences in the mean. this study investigates the relationship between SWB. levels of SWB reported by di価er㎝t national and. and feeIing ofschoo1a切ustment．. cu1turaI members．Fumham＆Cheng（1999）examined. Met110d. persona1ity as predictor of happiness in Britain，China. P州icip㎝ts. and Japan among comparab−e groups，It indicated that. STUDY 1 In total， 113 students participated in this. comp趾ed to simi1ar groups in China and』apan，British. study，of which47Chinese college students study㎞g. participants reported higher leve1s of happiness．Though. abroad at JapaIi，and66Japanese college students，. persona1ity predispositions apPear to be one of the. STUDY2In tota1．1132students participated in this. strongest曲。tors in舳encing SWB，there are also some. study，of which183Jr．high school students，184high. 1・ese砒。hes argued that happipess is nOt cOmpIetely. school students，and202coIlege students丘。m China；. based on inbom temperament，typicaHy accounts for no. 212Jr．high schoo1students，I60high schoo1students. more th㎝30％of the variance on SWB measures，. ㎝d191couege students丘。m Jap㎝．. Moreover，the㎞vestigations reported so曲r mainly. M6asures. conducted㎞westem countries，1ittle is known about the. The irst questionnaire asked ｛br background. di価erences in SWB of ado1escents living in Asian．In. infomation including gender，age and grade．me. 1．esponse to this situation，the first purpose of this study. ○功〃〃ψ加e∬ gms〃。舳αかe （0HQ；Hills ＆. is to investigate the similarities．and di茄er㎝ces in SWB. Argy1e，2002）and∫〃ae〃∫ノψ．〃s伽e〃∫oα∫e（SAS；. between China amd Japan．. Asakawa，0zaki＆Kogawa，2003；Yoshida，Suzuki，. In this s伽dy，ado1escence in the 1ife cyc1e was. Kogawa，Asakawa＆Azuma，2002）were used．. 的。used on．School as a m勾。r domain of adolescen㏄. Res㎜lts. 1晩has been widely known・Thuneberg（2007）proposed. STUDY1. that schools exist because society needs an efiective. Factor amlysis with varimax rotations and the. org8mized way to teach its princip−es and essentia1skms. request command of extracting three factors was. 70.

(2) pe祓。㎜ed．The factors were labeled“Se1f−efncacy”，. Chinese and Jap8mese s血dents．As Fumham＆Cheng. “Positive af胎。t”and“Li飴satis曲。tion”．. （1999）pointed out that，Chinese and Japミmese showed. Tlle tota18md subscale scores of0HQ were趾rther. simi1ar in overan leve1of SWB，Comparing to their. …㎜alyzed withξma1yses of variance（ANOVA）aimed at. conc1usion， the resu−ts of this study apP1y another. detecting the dif胎rences in country and feeling of. viewpoint of SWB．It indicated that there is di胞ence. schooI a切ustment Ievel．The analyses revealed no. in per㏄pti㎝of SWB in Chinesθand Japanese. significant e脆。ts ofcountry in total scores ofOHQ，but. ado1escents as the危eling of schoo1a切ustment invested. in subscales． Chinese students showed more. tobethe in刊uence factorofSWB inthisstudy．. se−f＿efHcacy than Japanese students．Japanese students. The results丘。m two couIltries indicated di脆ren㏄s. showed more positive a脆。t and1晩satis胞。tion than. in multip1e regressions．In Jrl high schoo1，relation to. Chinese students．There was also a significant effect of. family members is more impoれant to Chinese students’. 危eling of schoo1adjustment−evel．The students in. SWB，whi1e academic activity had a鮒。ng e脆。tおr. higher level showed happier th㎝those in the middle. Japanese students． The di揃erence in parent−child. and lower level．. relationship between two countries was p航1y a血Iibuted. STUDY2. to Chinese one−chi−d poIicy．. The SWB scores were ana1yzed with amlyses of. However，in high school，interpersoml relation to. variance（ANOVA），in which the independent variabIes. 命iends seems to be most important in both Chinese and. were coun岬，9mde and胎eling of schoo］adjustment. Japanese students．Kitayama＆Mar㎞s（2000）indicated. 1eve1わr the between groups meas町e．A t11ree−way. that hapPiness is constlIucted as realization of socia−. interaction was significant．Jr．high scboo1and high. ha㎜ony1nAsianculture．. schooI st11dents showed happier than college students in. Since schoo1adjustment invested to be one of the. China．Chinese students showed happier than Japanese. in刮uence勉。tors of SWB in this study，the hypothesis. s加dents in middle and lower leve−ofschool adjustm㎝t．. that higher level of school aΦustment would re1ate. Multip1e regression amlyses using the stepwise. positive1y to SWB was upheId．However，it indicated. method were conducted to examine which subscaies of. that compare to Japanese students，Chinese Students. 危eIing of schoo−adjustment affected each grade of. showed stronger dependence on school，That may be. SV−B． Signiicant standardized partial regression. another explanation鮎T the d欄eren㏄ofSWB betwe㎝. coe揃。ients were seen此r丘equency of contact on each. Chinese and Japanese students．. 里ade，suggested that SWB in any grade is conti㎎㎝t. Last but not least，except school a切ustment，more. upon危eling ofschoo1a切ustment，For Chinese』r．high. elements shouId be considered in the血血re research．. schoo1students，relation to胞mily members had a strong. Beside，行eldwork win produce more i曲mative. e脆。t．For ChiI1ese high schoo1students，interpersona−. composite，the strengths of the di脆rent types of. relation to丘iends was significant explamtoηvariables，. research methods are o危en complement岬to each other．. For Japa11ese Jr．high school s血de耐s，academic activity. For this reason，ie1dwork should combine with. and SWB were related，whi1e inte叩ersomI relatiom to. one−timequestiomaire inthe血tureresearch．. 丘iends had a strong effect in high schoo1students．. 主任指導教員浅川潔司. I＝DiSC皿SSi0皿. 指導教員浅」l1潔司. The purpose of this study was to clari取SWB in. 71.

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