Abstract
contacts with their family in the various situations in their family life.
Procedure: The subjects were about 600 junior high school pupils and about 1,000 primary school pupils of Miyako City in Iwate Prefecture,(ranging from seven to fourteen years old).
Using questionnaire method, instructed them to answer six questions concerning their contacts with their family in their everyday life situations, and then to rank their family by their preference.
Result: So far as this survey was concerned, it was found out that the subjects had shown a tendency to rank first the members of their family with whom they came in favorable contact in their family life.
Part 11 Purpose: To see whether children who had shown the abnormality m the ranking of their family would make any charateristic responses to Rorschach's Test.
Procedure: The subjects were 13 fifth-grade boys of one primary school in Tokyo. All of them had moderate scholastic abilities. Eight boys (the first group) were normal in ranking their family, that is to say, they gave first or second rank to their parents. Five other boys (the second group) showed some abnormalities in ranking their family, that is to say, they gave third or lower rank to either one of their parents.
In using Rorschach's Test, a set of eight plates revised by MOTOAKI of Waseda University was employed. The test was administered twice: fitst, to a group of six subjects, and then to a group of seven subjects. Each group included both “normal” and “abnormal” subjects.
Result: The mean value of R (the total of all responses) of the second (“abnormal”) group was significantly less than that of the first (“normal”) group. But, in all other aspects, no particular difference was seen between the two groups.
It is presumed that the, above-mentioned difference of R is dependent upon the difference in the “response motivation” between the two groups, and is caused by the fact that the second group expressed relatively more friistrated behavioral tendency than the first group.
