Abstract
For planning and implementing public policies related to civil engineering, it is important to understand people's attitude toward government. Although some studies have clarified the factors of public criticism to the government, we have not yet all the possible factors of the criticism to the government. In this paper, we focus on the issue that the “egoistic-human-being belief”, which means a belief that “all people are absolute egoists”, is one of the basic factors in the attitude toward government and its policy. We statistically tested the theoretical hypothesis about the negative attitude toward them caused by the egoistic-human-being belief by using a questionnaire survey data. As a result, the hypotheses were supported.
