2012 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 233-242
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between anthropophobic tendency and life events, using a short longitudinal data among university students. The anthropophobic tendency scale and life events scale for university student were administered to 129 Japanese university students on two occasions, with interval about 6 months (the survey at the first time; Time 1 and the survey at the second time; Time 2).
The main results of this study showed that there were significantly positive correlations between anthropophobic tendency and negative life events in interpersonal and achievement domains, whereas there were significantly negative correlations between anthropophobic tendency and positive life events in interpersonal and achievement domains. The findings with cross-lagged effects model also indicated that anthropophobic tendency at Time 1 significantly affected negative life events in achievement domains at Time 2.
Furthermore, it seems to need the research with longitudinal data at long intervals in order to generalize the findings of this study using a short longitudinal data. Despite these limitations, this study may have an important implication for clarifying the question, which there has been little empirical attempt to relationships between anthropophobic tendency and life events. In particular, the results of this study may suggest that we need to examine a support for negative life events in relate to high level of anthropophobic tendency among university students.
