Puberty Crisis among Junior High School Students : Literature Review on Projective Method Studies among Literature Review on Projective Method Studies among

チュウガクセイ　ニ　オケル　シシュンキ　キキ　ニ　ツイテ　イッパン　チュウガクセイ　ト　フトウコウ　チュウガクセイ　ニ　トウエイホウ　ヲ　モチイテ　オコナワレタ　チョウサ　ノ　ブンケン　ケンキュウ　カラ

アカガワ, チカラ

Akagawa, Chikara

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 キョウイクガクケイ

Department of Education, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

The present article discusses the puberty crisis among junior-high school students referring to Kretschmer’s (1949/1958) concept of this crisis. We reviewed previous researches carried out in Japan that apply projective methods among truants and their peers who attend school regularly. In so doing, we managed to clarify the specifics of the puberty crisis in each of the two aforementioned groups and classify them into five clusters. We also arrived at the conclusion that puberty crisis is an important issue for school-attending students. Therefore, it should be so also for their truant peers. That is especially valid for issues of puberty crisis-related anxiety: anxiety seems to remain dormant in the unconscious mind of the school-attending students, while in cases of truancy it emerges on a conscious level. However, the consciousness of the truant students can hardly cope with such anxiety. Despite the important conclusions, however, our study remained limited only to literature review of researches that use projective methods. For that reason, carrying out projective method researches on the puberty crisis among truants and junior high school students with developmental disorders will also be well-justified.