The relationships between attraction of same-sex friend and relationship-maintenancemotivation in the light of personal importance

ドウセイ ユウジン ニ カンジル ミリョク ガ カンケイ ケイゾク ドウキ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ コジン ニ トッテ ノ ジュウヨウセイ ノ カンテン カラ

ニシウラ, マキコ

Nishiura, Makiko

大坊, 郁夫

ダイボウ, イクオ

Daibo, Ikuo

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

対人魅力

関係継続動機

個人にとっての重要性

interpersonal attraction

same-sex friend

personal importance

The purpose of this study is to clarify what is interpersonal attraction of same-sex friends, and to clear up its effects on relationship-maintenance motivation in terms of personal importance. Two hundred and two undergraduates responded the questionnaires about their same-sex friendships. They rated how attractive they regarded their friends by using friends’ attraction scale, which made through preliminary study. Also, they answered the degree to which each item on the scale was important to them. The results showed mainly three findings as below. First, factor analysis of friends’ attraction indicated four factors; security, stimulus, faithfulness, and independence. Second, based on importance to the participants, they were divided into four clusters; security-emphasis, stimulus-emphasis, independent- emphasis, and non-emphasis. Finally, in independent-emphasis cluster, stimulus had a most strong effect on the relationship-maintenance motivation. In every other cluster, security had a strong effect on that. The discussion considered the relationships between friends’ attraction and relationship-maintenance motivation and the role of personal importance in those relationships.

大坊, 郁夫

英語