2024 Volume 57 Issue 2 Pages 95-105
Research on self-consciousness and other consciousness has mainly focused on the period up to adolescence. However, as Japan has entered the era of a super-aged society, it is important to know how older people perceive themselves and others and compare this with the one of adolescence. This study aimed to clarify gender and age differences in self-consciousness and other consciousness as personality traits by surveying a wide range of age groups. The data consisted of 1943 Japanese males and females, aged 15 to 79, obtained through a web survey. First, factors for measuring self-consciousness and other consciousness were found valid. Then, multiple regression analyses were conducted using the scores on each subscale of the Perspective-Based Consciousness Scale as the dependent variable and gender and age as independent variables. The results showed that the main effects of gender and age were significant for all subscales; women scoring higher than men and younger age groups scoring significantly higher than older age groups.
