大学への学校適応感の予測因子 : 自己概念と友人関係のあり方からの検討

The present research investigated the predictive factors for a subjective adjustment toward a university (college). In the hypothesis model, the predictive variables were four personality traits, and three sub-dimensions of friendship in modem adolescents. The four personality traits were \u27self-esteem\u27, \u27sense of authenticity\u27, \u27sense of self-usefulness\u27 and \u27sense of self-affirmation\u27. The three sub-dimensions of friendship were \u27avoiding intimate relationship\u27, \u27reserved attitude to friends\u27 and \u27gathering in crowds\u27. The criterion variables were sub-dimensions of subjective adjustment toward the university. The participants were 134 female studying in a women\u27s university located in the metropolitan area of Japan. The data were submitted to the Structural Equation Model (using Amos). A subjective adjustment toward the university consists of four sub-dimensions; \u27sense of comfort\u27, \u27feeling of acceptance and trust\u27, \u27existence of task and purpose\u27 and \u27absence of feelings of rejection\u27. The findings of the path analysis showed that the significant predictive factors are different depending on respective mb-dimension of the adjustment. The distinguishing findings are as follows; while low \u27avoiding intimate relationship\u27 predicted a high score in sub-dimensions of a subjective adjustment, high \u27gathering in crowds\u27 predicted a high score in sub-dimensions of a subjective adjustment. The importance for educational approach based on the findings shown above was discussed. Especially, in these modern days, some large portions of the students in higher educational institute do not value the academic achievement. It is important to seek respective predictive factors of students\u27 subjective adjustment in each kind of educational institute