FUNDAMENTAL STUDY ON MEASUREMENT AND MODIFICATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCES ; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS' CHARACTERS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCES

Abstract

The present study was conducted to examine students' characters which were assumed to affect the psychological distances between students and their teachers. Nearly 300 students were asked to evaluate their psychological distances from their teachers and they were also tested by YatabeGuilford personality test. The main results were as follows; the product moment correlations between cooperative subscale and psychological distances and social extroversion subscale and psychological distances were significant in male students, on the other hand, the product moment correlation between general activity subscale and psychological distances were significant in female students.