How Friend Groups Affect Friendship Through “Kyara” From the viewpoints of psychological adjustment and sense of place

キャラ　ヲ　ツウジタ　ユウジン　カンケイ　ニ　オケル　ユウジン　グループ　ノ　エイキョウ　ニ　ツイテ　シンリテキ　テキオウ　ト　イバショ　カン　ノ　カンテン　カラ

Fujino, Ryohei

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

This questionnaire study investigated how a group of friends influences the relationship between friends through “Kyara” that are prominent in modern youth. The purpose of this study was to clarify how the characteristics of friend groups, which are characteristic of friendships with “Kyara”, are related to the presence or absence of “Kyara” and how they are perceived, and how these characteristics affect psychological adjustment. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 171 university students. As a result of the analysis, the existence of “Kyara” was not related to the nature and psychological adaptation of the friend groups, and synchronism and psychological distance within the friend group affected their ibasho (sense of interpersonal rootedness) and selfesteem. In addition, in the process of accepting “Kyara”, positive acceptance and “Kyara” action affected their self-esteem, and synchrony and psychological distance affected their ibasho. The above results indicated that “Kyara” was not related to the ibasho of the person who raises their self-esteem, and that it seems more important to reconsider the features of the friend groups to which the person belongs rather than reexamining “Kyara” in order to evaluate psychological adaptation.