岩崎 正子, 石塚 正一, 原 一雄
『国際基督教大学学報I-A 教育研究』 26(26) 85-106 1984年
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate what changes have taken place in the values of the students of ICU during these 20 years. At ICU, a survey concerning the student's values had been conducted during the several years starting from 1961, and to compare with that data we tried to elucidate the values of today's ICU students. We have also determined to compare the 20 years change of ICU student's values with that of the student's in America, in which case the example was the change seen between 1950 and 1970. METHOD: Subjects were the ICU students of '63 and '83. Data referring to the American students of '50 and '70 have been adopted from Morris' study (1956, 1971). The Morris' Value Scale method (1956) was used in which 13 possible life styles are presented. The respondent is asked to answer how much he/she personally likes them respectively. The extent of his/her likes or dislikes are to be put in numbers; numbers 1 to 7 where 1 is the most disliked and 7, the most liked. The order in which the 13 life styles are preferred is also asked. A brief content of the 13 ways of living are as follows: Way 1: To preserve the best that man has attained. Way 2: To cultivate independence of persons and things. Way 3: To show sympathetic concern for others. Way 4: To experience fastivity and solitude in alternation. Way 5: To act and enjoy life through group participation. Way 6: To master changing conditions constantly. Way 7: To integrate action, enjoyment, and contemplation. Way 8: To live with wholesome, carefree enjoyment. Way 9: To wait in quiet receptivity. Way 10: To control the self stoically. Way 11: To meditate on the inner life. Way 12: To seek a chance for adventuresome deeds. Way 13: To obey the cosmic purposes. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Results from the Value Scale of ICU students in 1983 have proved to be similar to that of 1963 in the general tendencies. Twenty years have not changed the tendency of Way 3 and 7 to be liked mostly, and Way 9 and 11 to be disliked mostly. The preference for Way 7 especially has become more intensive. From this, it could be considered that the ICU students prefer the life of the dynamic integration of enjoyment, action and contemplation, and also the life of the sympathetic concern for others. And they do not prefer such lives in quiet receptivity and meditation. These tendencies have not changed during the last 20 years. On the other hand, minor differences have occured during the same period, where the extents to which they prefer Way 4 and 8 have increased and that of Way 5, 6, 10 and 13 decreased. This suggests that ICU students have become to like self contented enjoyments and comfortable lives for themselves, and to dislike controling the self stoically and being used by other persons. These preferences of life match well to the current tendency of this age group. The changes occured during the last 20 years from '63 to '83 at ICU have quite a resemblance to the results of 20 years change from '50 to '70 in American students. Minor differences exist, however, in that Way 13 remains most disliked among American students. It is probable that the ICU students' values have been influenced by US. Two independent factor analyses were performed based on those data obtained from '63 and '83 (ICU). The results revealed that the factorial patterns are very similar to each other. Also, factors extracted from ICU students were proved to be quite similar to the factors shown by Morris.