Host: Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT)
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relation between the present self-recognition and future self-recognition in young, middle-age and elderly groups with the multi-axis concentric circle scale. The participants were asked to evaluate proximity between themselves at present and themselves at age from 0 to 100 with the multi-axis concentric circle scale. Then the participants were also asked to evaluate the degree concerning satisfaction with life, happiness, confidence in health, hopefulness and volition that they had about themselves at age from 0 to 100 with the circle scale. The participants were also asked to estimate nine characteristics at present with numerical values (0 to 100). The evaluation scores of the proximity item were affected according to the difference between a participant's present age and the age of 90. Therefore, in order to compare the difference in correlation among the three groups appropriately, the evaluation scores of the proximity item were not included in indices of future self-recognition.The results showed that the correlations between the mean scores of the numerically evaluated nine items about the present self-recognition of each participant and the mean scores of the five items about the future self-recognition of each participant on the circle scale were statistically significant (p<0.01) in the elderly group. However, the correlations between the same items were not significant in the young and the middle-age group. The possible factors (difference in age, birth cohorts, etc.) of the difference in the recognition about the life-span-development process between the two groups were discussed.
