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Kyoshinken Review
Jewels among stones in Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology
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Issued Kazuolly by Kazuo MORI@Shinshu-U
kazmori@gipnc.shinshu-u.ac.jp
http://zenkoji.shinshu-u.ac.jp/mori/kr/krhp-e.html
Contents of Vol.47 No.2 of JJEP
Mihoko KURAMORI
Analysis of the Negotiation Process: Influence of Elementary School Children's Attitudes on the Negotiation Process and Their Performance in Discussion.
Forty-six 5th graders who were at a lower level of moral development were paired with children at a higher level in the same age group. They were then asked to discuss in pairs how to solve a certain conflict for about ten minutes. Three sessions of these discussions were carried out in the course of three weeks. The children at a lower moral development level improved their moral judgement test scores after these discussions. However, those who had scored low on both assertiveness and cognitive empathy improved less than the others.
Complexity of Self-Representation as a Cognitive Buffer Against Depression and Affective Responses Following Life Events.
A regression analysis on data from 150 college students revealed that positive aspects of the complexity of self-representation might be a cognitive buffer against depressive feelings in daily life.
Factors That Influence the Ego Developmental Crisis State in Adolescence.
[Not Worth Reading]
Taketoshi SUGISAWA
Statistical Power of Educational Psychology Research in Japan.
Statistical powers were calculated for the papers published in the Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology between 1992 and 1996, 250 papers in total. They were found to be higher than the results of previous power surveys for American journals, such as Cohen(1962); the median powers to detect small, medium, and large effects were .15, .68, and .96, respectively. However, the powers of tests used for accepting null hypotheses were not high enough; the median power of 15 studies that used non-significant results for accepting their research hypotheses was as low as .66 for medium effect, far lower than the recommended level, .95. Powers were also calculated and compared in terms of research areas, research methods, and statistical methods.
(For further information; fax to Taketoshi SUGISAWA, Faculty of Education, Univ.of Tokyo, +81-3-5800-6808)
Relationship Between Perceived Self-Regulation and Prosocial Behavior in Preschool Children.
Thirty-three 5-year-old children were divided into four groups according to their scores on self-assertiveness and self-inhibition; high-high, high-low, low-high, and low-low on the scales. Their prosocial behavior during a free-play session was observed and classified into two types; self-initiated ones and requested ones. The results revealed that the high-high group tended to show more often self-initiated prosocial behavior than the other three groups.
(For further information; fax to Junko ITO, Faculty of Education, Hiroshima Univ., +81-824-22-7174)
Keiko KASHIWAGI & Hisako NAGAHISA
Value of a Child for Women: Why Have a Child Now?
Two cohort groups of Japanese mothers, 235 around-40-year-olds and 248 around-60-year-olds, were asked the reasons of having children. It was found that the younger mothers weighted less the values of having children and more the costs and conditions.
(For further information; fax to Keiko KASHIWAGI, Shirayuri College, +81-3-3326-4800)
Junko ENOMOTO
Socio-Emotional Development of Friendship Among Adolescents: Activities with Friends and the Feeling for Friends.
[Not Worth Reading]
Yoshinori SUGIURA
Worry: Problem-Solving Orientation and Uncontrollability.
A questionnaire measuring features of worry processes was completed by 359 college students and analysed by the causal modeling technique.
(For further information; fax to Yoshinori SUGIURA, Facultyof Education, Univ.of Tokyo, +81-3-5800-6808)
Naoko OKAMOTO
Relation Between the Existence of Intimate Others and Fear of Success.
[Not Worth Reading]
Harumi KOBAYASHI
Making Inferences about Word Meanings with the Use of Mutural Exclusivity: Role of Joint Attention Cues and Place Knowledge Cues.
Fifty-eight Japanese 4-year-olds were examined whether they would use environmental cues to make correct inferences about novel names.