Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships within the cognitive processes between Self (S) and Other (O) in an affective situation, and to show the structure of the cognitive processes by factor analysis.
The subjects were 56 pairs of male students in a medical college. They were administered the Self-Differential Scale to evaluate 1) self image; S→s or O→o, 2) image of the other person; S→o or O→s, 3) inference about the other person's self image; S→ (O→o) or O→ (S→s), 4) inference about the other person's image of me; S→ (O→s) or O→ (S→o), 5) ideal self image; S→Is or O→Io.
The results of the investigations are as follows:
1) The following 3 kinds of cognitive processes emerged as having the highest degree of concordance; S→Is: O→Io, S→s: S→ (O→s) and S→o: S→ (O→o).
2) According to the factor analysis based on the concordance of matched cognitive processes, 9 factors are obtained. These are termed “similarity of self images”, “disclosure of self image”, “idealization tendency”, “similarity between each other's images of the other person”, “self-esteem”, “disclosure of image of the other person”, “selforiented accuracy”, “idealization tendency by the other person”, “other-oriented accuracy”.
3) These factors are classified into 8 categories in two dimensions; namely the objects of cognition (self and other) and the characteristics of interpersonal perception (accuracy, disclosure, similarity an idealization).
