2015 年 34 巻 1 号 p. 1-10
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare Japanese(86 women)and Chinese(86 women)undergraduates' vocational motives, motives to avoid success, and gender role attitudes. In this study, three factors for vocational motives(status motivation, self-improvement motivation, and interpersonal motivation), two factors for motives to avoid success(fear of affiliative loss and low need for superiority), and one factor for gender role attitudes(egalitarian gender role attitudes)were extracted by factor analyses. The results of t-test showed female undergraduates in China had significantly higher status motivation, fear of affiliative loss, and egalitarian gender role attitudes than female undergraduates in Japan; Japanese undergraduates had significantly higher interpersonal motivation than Chinese undergraduates. In addition, the results of a multiple-group analysis showed that although there were similar relationships between vocational motives, motives to avoid success, and gender role attitudes of female undergraduates in Japan and China, there were also several cross-cultural differences.