Abstract
An ideal personality may be regarded as tridimensional solid having ideal andreal aspects as two a bases. In infancy, nursery tales are both real and ideal at the same time, and their characters may live with real men on the same plane of reality. On the other hand, in adult's life, where people live between political ideals and real politics, their ideal personality is obviously tridimensional. The base of ideal personality on the plane of ideality cannot be grasped directly from the experimental group of subjects as a concrete region of personality, but we can investigate the bases of ideal personality on the plane of reality from the group, and then build up a solid from them. Accordingly we secure at first the crossing regions of ideal personalities with those of real personalities on the plane of reality, then calculated the correlation's quotients between the words which indicated the properties of the ideal personalities, and finally synthesized some ideal personalities according to the correation between them.
The words, which indicate ideal personality, have 25 axes of opposite concepts, and are arranged according to their opposite nature. The group of subjects was given two instructions; -(1) “Think of an ideal personality of your friend (or teacher), and describe it concretely by the numbers of the words as much as you can”. (2) “Select and name one of your friends in this class (or your teachers in this school) who looks most like the ideal personality you described just now”. The test-papers were classified according to the indicated names and the numbers of the words at every names were calculated. At the next stage correlation's quotients between every two words were computed by the Pearson's method. Finally the words were picked up within certain limits of the quotients, which indicate the the degree of intimacy or strangeness between them. Thus we obtained certain numbers of ideal personality of pupils (or teachers) judged by pupils.
In the pre-adolescent period, the ideal personality is much like the character in moral tales, and clearly shows the influence of heteronomous environment. At the level of the junior high school, the ideal personality begins to grow out of the moral tale and comes into the open field of frankness and humor, particularly in the ideal personality of teacher, the traits such as originality and sex are stressed. At the level of college, one can find the typical traits in the ideal personalities of pupils, and class-conscisousness and historical nuance concerning their interests are emphasized in the ideal personalities of teachers. In adolescence, in contrast to the early period, the traits of the ideal personaities are not indicated concentrically, but dispersively. The ideal personalities by the protected boys are heteronomous and like the characters in moral tales, but the real personalities, which are measured by His contemporary tension method, have higher ambivalence quotients, and it shows that their personalities are more differentiated than the ordinary boys in a sense
The words, which are used by His crossing region method, are as follows:-
1. tender
2. composed
3. gentle
4. firm
5. gay
6. modest
7. sturdy
8. tight
9. minding one's own business
10. original
11. patient
12. sensible
13. shrewd
14. leading
15. sympathetic
16. polite
17. quick to decide
18. straight forward
19. active
20. meek
21. serious
22. self-reliant
23. dexterous
24. generous
25. competitive
26. bold
27. light-hearted
28. proud
29. frank
30. sober
31. unyielding
32. cooperative
33. open
34. kind
35. conventional
36. lively
37. courteous
38. benevolent
39. obedient
40. outspoken
41. unceremonius
42. cautious
43. flexible
44. timid
45. vigorous
46. humorous
47. used to ascertain
48. prudent
49. good-natured
