Jewels among stones in Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology
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Issued Casually by Kazuo MORI@Shinshu-U
kazmori@gipnc.shinshu-u.ac.jp
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Contents of Vol.45 No.4 of JJEP
Wakaba KOIKE：
A Developmental Study on Depiction of Emotions in Children&s Drawings.
[Not Worth Reading]
Maki SUGANUMA：
Self-Disclosure and Self-Esteem in Old Age.
[Not Worth Reading]
Keiko SAKAI & Masaki HISANO：
Construction of Value-Intending Mental Act Scale.
[Not Worth Reading]
Yuko ITO：
The Formative Factors of Gender Conception and Its Relationship with a Selection of Gender Roles in Adolescents.
The differences in gender conception among Japanese adolescents were investigated using as subjects about 1,500 high school students. In Study 1, a Gender Conception Scale consisting of 30 items was made and tested for its reliability and validity. In Study 2, the interrelation among gender conception and five other related factors were analysed to formulate a causative model drawn in a path diagram as shown in Fig.1. Multiple regression analyses performed separately for male students and female students revealed the following: (1) for both male and female students, gender conception was affected by (a) contact with juvenile magazines, (b) awareness of sex/gender differences in mental aspects during early childhood, and (c) the gender expectation of their parents; (2) for female students, in addition to the above three, (d) awareness of physical sex/gender differences was an important factor; and (3) for male students, whether their schools were co-educational or not affected gender conception.
(For more information and inquiry; write to Yuko ITO, Department of Psychology, Seitoku University, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan 271-8555)
Manabu KISHI：
A Developmental Study of Comprehending Procedural Expository Text.
[Not Worth Reading]
Tadayuki SAWADA：
Development of Children&s Understanding of Emotional Dissemblance in Another Person.
[Not Worth Reading]
Chika SUMIYOSHI：
Category Based Induction-- Factors of Premise Categories Influencing Plausibility Judgement of General Arguments--.
General argument is a type of inference that starts from a premise such as "Both hippos and cats utilize serotonin as a neurotransmitter" and concludes with "So do all animals." The plausibility of the conclusion would be higher when the examples used in the premise are less similar to each other. The present study aimed to prove the hypothesis by measuring the plausibility of the conclusions and the similarities between the examples used in the premises. Twelve animals were used as examples in the premises and the similarities were measured pairwise. The multidimensional scaling technique (INDSCAL) revealed that there would be two different dimensions in the similarity aspect of the animals, i.e., size and predation. Three experiments with undergraduate subjects proved the hypothesis, and revealed that the dominance of the similarity dimensions would differ from subject to subject.
The Self-Monitoring of Foreign Students of Japanese in Pronunciation Learning.
[Not Worth Reading]
Nobuko KUBO：
Motivation of University Students in Their Study of English.
[Not Worth Reading]
Takanori NISHIDE & Yoshiji NATSUNO：
The Effects of Family System Functioning on the Pupils' Depressive Mood.
The Family Assessment Inventory (FAI) was administered to 267 junior high school students and their parents, along with the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). The following three findings were obtained from covariance structure analysis: (1) as expected, the CDI scores tended to be lower when the children assessed family function positively; (2) the CDI scores were NOT affected by the FAI scores of their fathers; and most intriguingly, (3) positive assessments of the family function by mothers would be bilateral. They would affect the children's depression positively or negatively. When they affected their children's assessments of the family function positively, they would in turn decrease the children's depression. However, when the mothers' assessments did not match the assessments by their children, they might have increased the depression in their children.