Relational self-perception and intimacy : Close relationships of university students in Japanese today

タイジン カンケイ ニ オイテ ニンチ サレタ ジコ ト シンミツド ノ カンレン ゲンダイ ノ ダイガクセイ ノ サマザマナ シンミツナ カンケイ

カミデ, ヒロコ

Kamide, Hiroko

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

大学生

自己認知

親密性

close relationships

university students

self-perception

intimacy

This study aimed to classify close relationships of university students in Japanese today and to investigate the relationships between intimacy and self-perception in each interpersonal relationship. 99 students described what kind of relationships with 5 close others in an open ended style. They also evaluated the degree of intimacy with each other (Okada,1999) and self-perception when they were with each other(Hayashi, 1978; individual familiarity, social desirability, activeness). From the view of personality, a Japanese version of the BIS / BAS scale(Kamide & Daibo, 2005)was evaluated to assess two general motivational systems that underlay behavior and affect. Results showed that close interpersonal relationships of college students in Japanese today were classified into 7 categories of “before elementary school”,“junior high school”,“high school”,“university”,“a part-time job”,“romantic relationships”and“other”. We regressed self-perception on intimacy per 7 categories and found that self-perception of individual familiarity increased the degree of intimacy across most categories. This means that if they were telling jokes or entertaining close others with humor, they felt high degree of intimacy with the others. Self-perception of social desirability was related to intimacy just in“before elementary school”, and this result suggested that they needed social desirability like conscience or earnestness to maintain good relationships with longtime friends that would be well-connected persons in years to come. In a category of“university”, BIS (propensity of avoidance)increase the degree of intimacy, so they might maintain good relationships with relatively new friends to avoid conflicts or reduce in daily life risk.

大坊, 郁夫