2017 年 21 巻 1 号 p. 29-44
Most researcher have reported that camping has psychosocial effect on participants. This study consisted of two purposes: primary purpose was to clarify effects of long-term camping on its participants’ over-adaptation, secondary purpose was to investigate the process of changing social adjustment of adolescents who have psychological problem (e.g., adolescents who cannot go to school or who have developmental disability). The targeted camp was long-term adventure camping organized by National Institution for Youth Education. The participants comprised of 16 adolescents of which four of them suffering from psychological problems. The questionnaire survey was administered to all participants before camping, the last day of camping and one month later by using Over-adaptation scale and Ibasho scale. And a case study was conducted for two participants who have psychological problems. Through the survey, it became evident that the camping showed partially significant effect on over-adaptation, especially on “Self doubt” factor. In addition, result from the case study generated the transformation process model for social adjustment. In the process, adaptive state moved some stages from “non-adaptive self”, “attention to self”, “seeking of self”, “pre-adaptive self” to, “adaptive self”. It can be considered from these results that long-term camping cultivates both individuation and socialization of social adjustment.
