@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00024005, author = {岩瀬, 真寿美 and 奥田, 彩海 and 松下, 晴彦 and Iwase, Masumi and Okuda, Ayami and Matsushita, Haruhiko}, journal = {中等教育研究センター紀要}, month = {Mar}, note = {The purpose of this research is to investigate how the Japanese adolescents today make their peer relationships and friendship. Firstly, the paper reviews the research on the Japanese youth or youth culture of the past and the present, and the comparative studies on the ways of developing friendship between Japanese youth and foreign countries' youth. In the well-known research in 1974, Matsubara reviewed several surveys on adolescents in those days and pointed out the following facts: one of four young people in Japan answered that he (she) did not have close friends while searching for intimate friendship: even though the young people in Japan apparently had a tendency to show themselves as being indifferent, they actually wanted close, empathic and supportive relationship with other people. The recent studies on the attitudes and characters of the present youth (for instance, Hayamizu, Suwa and others) have been colored by the relatively negative views. They characterized the young Japanese as people who tended to define themselves as being illusionary almighty or virtual competent even if they were not. Secondly, the paper analyzes the result of our survey on peer relationship and friendship among high school students and college students in Tokai areas. They were given the questionnaire of 14 questions and also asked to write their own ideas on friendship. The findings of our investigation are that most of high school students seek to enjoy deep friendship although they seem to feel some difficulties in keeping their peer relationship sound. On the other hand, among their friends, they tend to make a difference between a deep friendship and a shallow one in daily life. These results of our survey are supported by Tsutomu Okada' s research. He categorizes the young into three types: the one who wants to be in group, the one who wants to shut oneself away, the one who wants to associate with his or her friends individually. In Okada's view, the third type, the traditional type, has decreased in number. Another recent research which supports our results is Michiko Sakuma's analysis on self-identity of the youth. Following W. James' idea that one develops multiple social-selves in accordance with the number of others who recognize him or her. Sakuma points out that one shows himself or herself as different selves in different interpersonal contexts. In her view, the different selves in the same one person do not mean the diffusion of self-identity. Thirdly, the paper explores the studies on the development of self-identity. In Eriksonian ideas, identity and the diffusion of identity must both be understood and accepted in order for fidelity to emerge as a viable solution in adolescence. But our investigations and Sakuma's study suggest that the diffusion of identity has been rather positively accepted among the young in Japan. They show themselves as different selves in different situations. The paper concludes that the negative evaluation on the young in Japan should not be generalized. It is true that quite a few people insincerely associate with their friends, but also true that they really wish to be befriended heartedly. Our study suggests that we have to be careful not to impose the negative image of young on adolescent so that they virtually take on such negative effect.}, pages = {69--85}, title = {現代の高校生における友人関係の捉え方}, volume = {8}, year = {2008} }