青年・成人前期女子におけるライフ・タスクとその評価の構造の推移

抄録

Recently, main topics in the identity research focus on its life-span development and on the models which integrate gender and cultural differences. Transition research is useful to examine these topics. In this study, the life tasks which female students have in their period of adolescence and early adulthood (70 freshmen, 83 juniors, 61 seniors, 209 graduates two years after their graduation) are examined, based on life task study in the purposive research (Zirkel & Cantor, 1990). As a result, the appraisals and these structures of normative life tasks are changing. Especially, the freshmen and the graduates have more characteristic structure of appraisal about life task, calculated by factor analysis, than others. So, it seems that freshmen and graduates struggle to adapt to their daily lives. And both those life tasks on the individuation and on the attachment function together in each grade. These results are useful to investigate many topics in the recent identity research.