Abstract
To investigate how to live a healthy psychosomatic life, I have constructed an IKIGAI scale and studied the problems of adolescence. In this study, I define IKIGAI as the state that people have a positive purpose, a sense of being full and social support. The features of the IKIGAI scale that have been characterized so far are summarized as follows : l) The IKIGAI scale has the reliability and validity enough to use. 2) The IKIGAI scale correlates to the things involving ego identity. 3) The students who show a high score of the IKIGAI scale have achieved healthier ego development than those with a low score. 4) The students who make a low score of the IKIGAI scale have a mother who tends to behave in the way of devaluing self-esteem of her child. The purpose of the present study is to make clear the further characteristics of the IKIGAl scale. Subjects are senior high school students (621 males, 789 females). The results of this study are summarized as follows : 1) The IKIGAI scale reflects the tendency of depression, particularly emptiness which is a characteristic of depression in adolescence. 9_) It is presumed that the IKIGAI scale can be a modulator of subjective stress, 3) It is hypothesized that those who keep a high score of the IKIGAI scale have less subjective stress and less stress reaction than those who make a low score. 4) It is thought that in order to know IKIGAI of patients, utilizing the IKIGAI scale is useful for the practice of holistic medicine.
