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The purpose of study is to consider problems on consumer education in home economics subject. Coeducational home economics as required subject in senior high school is scheduled to start in 1994.
Therefore, studies of consumer education are expected to researchers urgently, because many consumers, particularly young generation have had consumer troubles in many cases.
From this view point, a survey was held to analyze consciousness of consumer affairs and propencities of consumer behavior of teacher training college students from five regional groups in Japan.
The results were summarised as follows :
(1) Consciousness of the students as consumer are different with taken or untaken home economic subject. It is suggested that home economics is very effective in education for recognition of cooling-off system to compared with social studies, but home economics has rid effect for recognition of mail-order business, catch sales and apointment sales.
(2) The students who completed home economics subject in senior high school recognized better in knowledge of commodity, safety food and currency mechanism compared with students of nontaken the subject.
(3) 17.2% of the college students have creditcards, but 50% of the students have negative judgements to credit contract. They take a cautions attitudes in credit contract. However, 32.1% of the students have used the creditcards to buy multiform commodities.
(4) 53 persons have bought commodities such as books and learning materials by door-to-door sales. They paid money 94, 725 yen in average. 43.4% of the students regarded the results with satisfaction, but 56.4% of the students were far from satisfactory. The main reasons for discontent are that they do not select commodity subjectively, but they are inclined to impulse buying or to accept sales talk.
