Do Social Stratification Factors Have Any Effects upon the Sense of Self-Actualization? : Focusing on the Difference between Men and Women

シャカイ カイソウ ト ジコ ニンシキ ダンジョ ノ ヒカク オ チュウシンニ

キムラ, ヨシミ

Kimura, Yoshimi

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

自己認識

自己実現

交際

積極性

Social stratification

self-perception

self-actualization

connection

activities

Our society has experienced high level of economic growth, and society as a whole has since become a materially affluent one, in which we are now allegedly not so different from one another in our standard of living, and a growing number of youth receive higher education. Under these situations, it becomes important to self-actualize. Then, what determines our sense of self-actualization? Do such indices of social stratification have any effect, as income, academic career, prestige, etc., on our sense of self-actualization? In view of these, the paper aims at clarification of some supposed determinant factors of Japanese people's self-actualization. For their elucidation, we will focus, particularly, upon the presupposed differences of these factors between the sexes. Survey and analysis - of the relation between the sense of self-actualization and social stratification, through path analyses based on the data attained from the Social Stratification and Social Mobility Survey of 1995 - have shown the following. 1 ) Some indices of social stratification made use of in our analyses have been shown to be Significant, only for women, as probable factors that determine the sense of self-actualization. 2 ) There has turned out to be a difference between the sexes in the determinants of that sense. Significant as such determinants are, in the case of men, two variables: age and activities, while the equivalents for women are four variables: age, income, the range of social connections and activities. 3 ) With regard to the variables mentioned above, the range of social connections and activities have been found out to be more meaningful for social stratification among men than among women .

英語