Abstract
This study attempted to construct Male Apathy Inventory (MAI), Female Apathy Inventory (FAI), and Obsession Scale (OS), and investigate the relations among apathy, obsession, self-consciousness, and self-image. Forty-seven original items for MAI and FAI, 13 original items for OS, Sugawara's self-consciousness scale (1984), and Murase and Murase's self-image scale (1966) were administered to 508 university students. Principal component analysis and factor analysis were used to select 24, 32, and 9 items for MAI, FAI, OS, respectively. Students high on OS tended to be higher on private self-consciousness, and male students who were low on both apathy and obsession had the lowest public self-consciousness. Self-images of the students high on apathy tended to be negative. Also, high obsession scores seemed beneficial for the adjustment of female students.
