Participation in Maintenance of Regional Resources and Associated Factors :

Focusing on the Residents' Evaluation for Jichikai

Abstract

We investigated every factors on residents participation in Jichikai (neighbourhood association) activities, as typified by the maintenance of regional resources. In order to examine a linkage between residents' participation and their evaluation for the associations, we composed Jichikai Evaluation Scale. This scale is based on 6 questions about the acceptability of the associations for residents' participation. The results are as follows; 1) All activities are related with " the degree of neighbourly companionship " , " the farmer " and " the participation to the other association " factor. 2) Many activities are related with Jichikai Evaluation Scale. This result suggested that the improvement of residents' evaluation for Jichikai could promote its activities.